Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that.
There are so many different kinds of motivation for investing or giving or parting with your money in whatever other way, and plain old financial return is obviously attractive. But people are not always rational and are not just looking for that.