quotes about a broken heart and moving on

When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. ~William Blake



Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. ~Author Unknown



One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. ~Booker T. Washington



~William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, much later adapted to "So shines a good deed in a weary world" by David Seltzer for the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Thanks Aidan!)



Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb



Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen. ~Author unknown, attributed to a 7-year-old named Bobby



Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts. ~Jean Cocteau, Professional Secrets, 1922



This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. ~Rita Rudner



Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. ~Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with. ~Peter Marshall



A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court judge, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha. ~"The Villains in Blue," Time magazine, 25 August 1961



Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb



Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed. ~Saint Augustine



Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. ~Alexis de Tocqueville



It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. ~Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason



Judge me all you want, just keep the verdict to yourself. ~From a Winston advertisement



Do you think dyslexic people have difficulty dancing to "Y.M.C.A."? ~Dave Sokolowski



Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin