quotes about moving on and letting go

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. ~Colette



A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin. ~Branch Rickey, May 1960



History is philosophy teaching by examples. ~Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War



The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal. ~Mark Cuban



Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. ~Jefferson Machamer



It is not how big you are, it's how big you play. ~Author Unknown



Belief in karma ought to make the life pure, strong, serene, and glad. Only our own deeds can hinder us; only our own will can fetter us. Once let men recognize this truth, and the hour of their liberation has struck. Nature cannot enslave the soul that by wisdom has gained power and uses both in love. ~Annie Besant



A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. ~Lawrence Durrell



Dogs eat. Cats dine. ~Ann Taylor



No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. ~Channing Pollock



Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night. ~George Allen



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We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic. ~Cullen Hightower



Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. ~Peter Medawar



Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you. ~Nicholai Velimirovic



But, logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. ~Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany, "Weeds & Moss," My Ireland



While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician. ~Arthur Conan Doyle



Homosexuality is a sickness, just as are baby-rape or wanting to become head of General Motors. ~Eldridge Cleaver, "Notes on a Native Son," Soul on Ice, 1968



Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



People are giving birth underwater now. They say it's less traumatic for the baby because it's in water. But certainly more traumatic for the other people in the pool. ~Elayne Boosler