quotes about change and moving on

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. ~David T. Wolf


I am a man, and alive.... For this reason I am a novelist. And being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, the scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog. ~D.H. Lawrence, preface to Shestov, All Things Are Possible, 1938


Romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, spoken by the character Lisa Simpson


If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag. ~Author Unknown


People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery. ~Aristide Briand


Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ~Edward Sandford Martin


Things are never so bad they can't be made worse. ~From the movie The African Queen


You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun. ~Antonio Porchia


A smile can brighten the darkest day. ~Author Unknown


Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little. ~Hannah More


Above all else: go out with a sense of humor. It is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. ~Hugh Sidey


Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935


Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.


Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier. ~Author Unknown


People change and forget to tell each other. ~Lillian Hellman


Poker: the art of civilized bushwhacking. ~Nick Dandalos, attributed


Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb


Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man. ~Martin H. Fischer


You must start with a positive attitude or you will surely end without one. ~Carrie Latet


Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, - from human souls whom we never saw, who lived perhaps thousands of miles away; and yet these, on those little sheets of paper, speak to us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers. ~Charles Kingsley