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“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”
― Lord Alfred Tennyson

“To have spent my life holding my hands in tightly hidden fists. To try to understand what it would mean now to hold them open. I have always felt ashamed at being witnessed in the act of wanting something I could not have”
― Jennifer S. Cheng

“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.”
― Stuart Chase

“Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
― Galileo

“What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now”
― William Glasser

“and yet to every bad, there is a worse”
― Thomas Hardy

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go”
― Herman Hesse

“Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

“A man is known by the silence he keeps”
― Oliver Herford

“Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but rather learning to start over.”
― Nicole Sobon, Program 13

“For darkness restores what light cannot repair.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.”
― Edward De Bono

“There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
― Joseph Campbell

“Nothing can drive one closer to his own insanity than a haunting memory refusing its own death.”
― Darnella Ford

“It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.”
― Eleanor Brown, The Weird Sisters