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Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
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He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Expectations Diminish Joy.
- Anonymous
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
Calm provides clarity. Pause to consider
the gifts you have been given,
the difference you have made
and the direction in which you are headed.
- Anonymous
Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
All's well that ends well.
- Proverb (and title of a Shakespeare play)
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
Slow but steady wins the race.
- Anonymous
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist Proverb
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
Never quit.
- Anonymous
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb
You cannot soar with eagles when you are running with ducks.
- Anonymous
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
Follow Your Dreams.
- Anonymous
If the problem can be solved,
there is no use worrying about it.
If it can't be solved,
worrying will do no good.
- Tibetan proverb
Don't ask questions about fairy tales.
- Yiddish Proverb
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
He who hesitates is lost.
- Proverb
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
Hunker down.
- Anonymous
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
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