Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

It's okay to be sad if things don't go the way you had hoped.

When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been, it’s best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.

Change can be beautiful when we are brave enough to evolve with it, and change can be brutal when we fearfully resist.

When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again.

If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.

One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].

Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems

But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldn’t want it that way. ‘What’s the sense?’ she would say with a smile both innocent and wise. ‘What good is it, Laila jo?’ And so Laila has resigned herself to moving on. For her own sake, for Tariq’s, for her children’s. And for Mariam, who still visits Laila in her dreams, who is never more than a breath or two below her consciousness. Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.

When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

Just bc u loved and lost doesn't mean stop loving. If u have a nightmare, does it mean u stop dreaming?

Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.

One thing that's certain: around the corner from every ugly thing, there's something really beautiful. If we stop at every bitter interaction; we'll never reach our destination.

People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.

When lifes seems hopeless, rearrange things for a dose of dopeness.

We had more great times than bad times together, but they've moved on, I've moved on. I have a new team now and I have a new focus.

Life must go on; I forget just why.

A loss leads to victory, being fired leads to a dream job..I find comfort in believing that good things can grow out of tragedy.

Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith-the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen!

We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. Many times in our lives we see our dreams shattered and our desires frustrated, but we have to continue dreaming. If we don't, our soul dies, and agape cannot reach it.

When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.