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The grass is not always greener
by Anonymous

The grass is not always greener
on the other side of the fence.
Fences have nothing to do with it.
The grass is greenest where it is watered.
When crossing over fences, carry water with you
and tend the grass wherever you may be.
- Anonymous

Related topics: Wisdom Positive Action

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb PHOTO

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys) PHOTO

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

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This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous

 

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous

Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb

Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous

Time cures all things.
- Proverb

Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb

We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb

When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- Anonymous

The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb

If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Anonymous

Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous

If you want to be happy,
put your effort into controlling the sail, not the wind.
- Anonymous

Failing to plan is planning to fail.
- Anonymous

When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying

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

To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous

Follow Your Dreams.
- Anonymous

Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous

Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous

It's never too late.
- Anonymous

A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous

Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
- English Proverb

Follow your own star.
- Anonymous

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
- Anonymous

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb

Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous

Don't ask questions about fairy tales.
- Yiddish Proverb

When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb

You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous

Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb

Change comes from within.
- Anonymous

Carpe Diem (Seize the day)
- Latin Proverb

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb

An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous

The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous

Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb

I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb

From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb

All's well that ends well.
- Proverb (and title of a Shakespeare play)

Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb

The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb

He who hesitates is lost.
- Proverb

A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous

Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb

In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous

When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous

You cannot discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
- Anonymous

Many hands make light work.
- Proverb

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