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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb
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Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb 
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
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He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
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
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
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
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
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
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
All's well that ends well.
- Proverb (and title of a Shakespeare play)
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Proverb
Believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Don't quit.
- Anonymous
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
- Anonymous
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
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)
The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
Whatever it takes.
- Anonymous
He who has health has hope,
and he who has hope has everything.
- Anonymous
If you want to be happy,
put your effort into controlling the sail, not the wind.
- Anonymous
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
All the darkness of the world cannot
extinguish the light of a single candle,
yet one candle can illuminate all the darkness.
- Jewish Hanukah Prayer
Appreciate the Unexpected.
- Anonymous
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
Slow but steady wins the race.
- Anonymous
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
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
Expectations Diminish Joy.
- Anonymous
Hunker down.
- Anonymous
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous
Anything Is Possible.
- Anonymous
Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Follow your own star.
- Anonymous
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
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