'I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time.

It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.'

-Virginia Woolf

'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.'

-Alfred Lord Tennyson

'We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.'

-E.M. Forster