“Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hang on too long.”
Morrie Schwartz (1916–1995) American sociologist
Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)
Context: Don’t go to extremes. Don’t hate too much and don’t love too much. Try to live somewhere in the middle. Hate destroys the hater. And if you love too much you get too involved and you cannot see too clearly. Love and hate are like night and day. They do exist together and you must accept them both, but you must also understand them and be in control of both emotions. It is peaceful in the middle. You won’t be hurt in the middle.
“Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hang on too long.”
Morrie Schwartz (1916–1995) American sociologist
Isaac Levitan (1860–1900) Russian artist
Letter to Sergei Diaghilev, quoted on The Arts Desk http://www.theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/theartsdesk-moscow-isaac-levitan-tretyakov-gallery
“There was much to hate in this world and too much to love.”
Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“People who are busy and happy don’t write diaries; they are too busy living.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Friday
Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 33 (p. 353)
““And you’ve never married.”
“I don’t know any women well enough to hate ’em that much.””
Tim Powers (1952) American writer
The Hour of Babel (p. 61)
Short fiction, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (2011)
“You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too.”
Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian