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“By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.”

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Author:Laozi

“There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.”

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Author:Chris Brown

“There's never a right time to say goodbye.”

Goodbye Right Time Saying Goodbye Time To Say Goodbye

Author:Chris Brown

“I know you want me back. It's time to face the facts. That I'm the one that's got away. Lord knows that it would take another place, another time, another world, another life. Thank God I found the good in goodbye.”

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Author:Beyonce Knowles

“Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.”

Source: The House In Paris

“Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.”

Source: The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson

“I have been heart broken. You can't breathe, your eyes are pouring a thousand tears a second and you can't foresee going on with love because you never want to feel this way again. But then you have to look in the mirror and say 'Shut up, eat some ice cream, be by yourself for a while and think about who you are and who you want to be - then, go out and find someone compatible.' A broken heart feels like the worst thing in the whole world, but it really helps you decide what you want and don't want. You learn a lot from a broken heart.”

“Good-Bye is an easy word to say but try saying it to a friend. If I never knew you, I'd be safe, but half as real, never knowing I could feel.”

Ifs Feels Trying Real Easy Half Knowing Missing Safe Feel Good Goodbye Farewell Missing Someone Bye Good Bye

Author:Pocahontas

“Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

“Where is the good in goodbye?”

Goodbye Farewell

Book:Libretto for Meredith Wilson's the music man: book, music and lyrics

Source: Libretto for Meredith Wilson's the music man: book, music and lyrics

“Death's in the good-bye.”

Reality Death Goodbye Farewell Bye Good Bye

Author:Anne Sexton

“I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.”

“I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.”

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Author:Berkeley Breathed

“I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.”

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Book:All Told: My Art and Life Among Athletes, Playboys, Bunnies, and Provocateurs

Source: All Told: My Art and Life Among Athletes, Playboys, Bunnies, and Provocateurs

“I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I'd be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation.”

Mean I Can Games Shots Golf Goodbye Get Back Farewell Because I Can Saying Goodbye Rotation

Author:Greg Norman

“I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged.”

Ideas Care Financial Thanks No Idea Goodbye Bye Disconnected Financial System

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, 'Baby I Don't Care', was a hit, and the second, 'Bye Bye Boy', reached the Top 20.”

Firsts Care Wanted Boys Careers Baby Don't Care Pops I Don't Care Goodbye Bye Bye Bye

Author:Jennifer Ellison

“I was thrown into a community production of 'Bye Bye Birdie' or something when I was a kid. I wanted to just build the sets, but I wasn't allowed to just build the sets unless I auditioned for the play. So I auditioned for the play and was thrown into the chorus. During the course of that I fell in love with it, and I never really turned back.”

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Author:Michael Stuhlbarg

“I've met so many fans of daytime television who've watched the shows with their moms and grandmas and feel like they've known the characters their whole lives. It's sad for them to have to say goodbye to their favorite soaps and characters. We don't want that to happen to the 'Days' fans.”

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Author:Alison Sweeney

“In 1957, “West Side Story” had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; “Bye Bye Birdie,” set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side.”

“Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends.”

Mean Born Goodbye Staff Farewell Brooklyn Saying Goodbye

Author:Sydney Schanberg

“Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon.”

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Author:Richard O'Brien

“Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.”

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Author:William Petersen

“The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.”

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Author:Dakota Fanning

“The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.”

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Author:Daniel Handler

“There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye.”

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Author:Raymond E. Feist

“Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away.”

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Author:Lorrie Moore

“We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.”

People Littles Saws New York Mom Singing Towns Dancing My Mom Goodbye Bye Mining Reefs Singing And Dancing Bye Bye Bye Bye Birdie

Author:Margot Kidder

“When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych ward, I don't think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.”

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Author:Lois Lowry

“When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always expected to have but already knew that I wouldn't.”

Thinking Kids Expected Goodbye Saying Goodbye

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“When I go to a party, nobody says hello. But when I leave, everybody says goodbye.”

Party Goodbye Hello Saying Goodbye

Author:George Gobel

“When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.”

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Author:Mary Karr

“Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.”

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Author:Jean Dubuffet

“Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.”

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Author:George Saunders

“Because she is too ugly to kiss goodbye.”

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Author:Bum Phillips

“If you fall in love with an idea, you won't see the merits of alternative approaches-and will probably miss an opportunity or two. One of life's great pleasures is letting go of a previously cherished idea. Then you're free to look for new ones. What part of your idea are you in love with? What would happen if you kissed it goodbye?”

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Author:Roger von Oech

“We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.”

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Author:Marcus Buckingham

“I'm not J.Lo, she's not a real person. She was just a bit of fun that got really crazy. I've never been anyone but Jennifer. I was going to call the album Call Me Jennifer because that would be my way of saying goodbye to the whole J.Lo thing. But Rebirth is perfect because it means so much more.”

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Author:Jennifer Lopez

“Hush little baby, Dont you cry, Dont cut your arms, Dont say goodbye. Put down that razor, Put down that light, It maybe hard but, You'll win this fight.”

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Author:Emily Giffin

“Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.”

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Book:The works of William Shakespeare

Source: The works of William Shakespeare

“You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.”

Mean Ends Goodbye Farewell Beginning Middle And End Goodbye My Love

Book:The Road Not Taken, Birches, and Other Poems

Source: The Road Not Taken, Birches, and Other Poems

“Happy trails to you, until we meet again. Some trails are happy ones, Others are blue. It's the way you ride the trail that counts, Here's a happy one for you.”

“Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.”

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Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?”

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

“Happy trails to you, until we meet again.”

“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”

Inspirational Seems Tomorrow Goodbye Saying Goodbye Old Days Good Old Days Adieu Oldies

Author:Billy Joel

“I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me. Woolly jumpers, Wellington boot, scarves, thin first, then thick, socks. The low slanting light, the crisp mornings, the chill in my fingers, those last warm sunny days before the rain and the wind. Her moody hues and subdued palate punctuated every now and again by a brilliant orange, scarlet or copper goodbye. She is my true love.”

“That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!”

Source: The Course of Time: A Poem ...

“When you lose someone, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time.”

Loses Pieces Missing Goodbye Missing Someone

Author:Simon Birch

“And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.”

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Author:Gerald Scarfe