“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.” 

~ Jane Austen quotes (British Novelist and Writer, 1775-1817)

“You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.”  

~ Theodore H. White quotes (English Journalist, Historian and Novelist, 1915-1986)

"One's real life is often the life that one does not lead."

~Oscar Wilde, L'Envoi to Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf, 1882

“All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.”  

~ Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

“And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”  

~ William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)

“One kiss breaches the distance between friendship and love”

~ Unknown

“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”  

~ Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”

~ Unknown

“True friends stab you in the front.”  

~ Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900) 

"Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons."  

~Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1875

"Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love."  

~George Eliot

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

~Ambrose Bierce

"If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person.  And mean it.  You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so.  It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other."

 ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

"Get mad, then get over it."  

~Colin Powel

"Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die."  

~Malachy McCourt

"I thought when love for you died, I should die.
It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on."

~Rupert Brooke

"My love-lies-bleeding."

~Thomas Campbell

"Ask me why I keep on loving you when it's clear that you don't feel the same way for me... the problem is that as much as I can't force you to love me, I can't force myself to stop loving you." 

~Author Unknown

"Maybe part of loving is learning to let go."

~From the television show The Wonder Years

"I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had." 

~From the television show The Wonder Years

"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."  

~Charlie Brown

"Yes, I will go.  I would rather grieve over your absence than over you."  

~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Don't worry about losing.  If it is right, it happens - The Main thing is not to hurry.  Nothing good gets away.  

~John Steinbeck, 10 November 1958

"[A] final comfort that is small, but not cold:  The heart is the only broken instrument that works."  

~T.E. Kalem

"God is closest to those with broken hearts."  

~Jewish Saying

"I don't know why they call it heartbreak.  It feels like every other part of my body is broken too."  

~Missy Altijd

"Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again."  

~Rosa Parks

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."

~Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927

"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."  

~Sophia Loren

"I never make stupid mistakes.  Only very, very clever ones."

~John Peel

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."  

~Colette

"Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them."

~Andrew V. Mason

Hate

"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." 

~Booker T. Washington

"I have decided to stick with love.  Hate is too great a burden to bear."  

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.  What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." 

~Herman Hesse

"Hate is misguided love."

~Author Unknown

"Take care that no one hates you justly."

~Publilius Syrus

"End discrimination.  Hate everybody."

~Elle Eden