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Trumpet in a herd of elephants;
crow in the company of cocks;
bleat in a flock of goats.
- Malayan Proverb
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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
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You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- 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
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
Persistence prevails when all else fails.
- Anonymous
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
Slow but steady wins the race.
- Anonymous
Dance like no one is watching,
love like you'll never be hurt.
Sing like no one is listening.
Live life like it's heaven on earth.
- Anonymous (various attributions and alternate phrasings)
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
Believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
He who has health has hope,
and he who has hope has everything.
- Anonymous
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
- Anonymous
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous
Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits.
- Anonymous
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
- Anonymous
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist Proverb
Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
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)
Never give up.
- Anonymous
Better late than never.
- Proverb
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Peace is the ultimate blessing.
- Jewish traditional
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
Follow your own star.
- Anonymous
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
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