Sad only if you think so

We made a birthday card for a friend who is coping with the end of a relationship while musing on her mid life arrival. Here are some of the quotes harkening to the authors we read from on Thanksgiving that we put on her card – another friend of hers called it a sad card. Really? Then you view life as sad.

“Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.”  Wallace Stegner

“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.” Virginia Woolf

“The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.” Elizabeth Bishop

“Love is my religion – I could die for it.” John Keats

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.” Robert Frost

“Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.” Langston Hughes

“When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long.” Constantine Peter Cavafy

“Do not regret growing older.  It is a privilege denied to many.”  ~Author Unknown

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