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A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
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Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish 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
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Return love for hate.
- Anonymous
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
We are most like God when we forgive.
- Anonymous
Slow but steady wins the race.
- Anonymous
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb
Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Proverb
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist Proverb
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
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)
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
We hate in others what we most fear in ourselves.
- Anonymous
You cannot discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
- Anonymous
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
Don't quit.
- Anonymous
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
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