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If you want to be happy,
put your effort into controlling the sail, not the wind.
- Anonymous
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The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish 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
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- 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
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
Change comes from within.
- Anonymous
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous
Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Proverb
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman 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
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
He who has health has hope,
and he who has hope has everything.
- Anonymous
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist Proverb
That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
Better late than never.
- Proverb
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
Never quit.
- Anonymous
Return love for hate.
- Anonymous
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
- English Proverb
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
- Anonymous
The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
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
Follow your own star.
- Anonymous
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese 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
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
Don't quit.
- Anonymous
Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
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