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

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

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)

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

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

If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

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

Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb

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

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

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb

We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb

March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb

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

Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb

If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb

Better late than never.
- Proverb

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

He who hesitates is lost.
- Proverb

Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist Proverb

Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
- American Indian Proverb

Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb

Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb

Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb

Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb

Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb

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

Carpe Diem (Seize the day)
- Latin Proverb

Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge

Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb

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

It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb

One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb

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

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

Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb

Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb

Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb

I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb

Every dog has his day.
- Proverb

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

If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- 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

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

Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb

Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb

Time cures all things.
- Proverb

That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb

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

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

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb

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

Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb

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

Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb

Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb

If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb

Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb

If the problem can be solved,
there is no use worrying about it.
If it can't be solved,
worrying will do no good.
- Tibetan proverb

Many hands make light work.
- Proverb

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

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