The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Related topics: Wisdom
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 
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
We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster
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Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
When all else fails, try thinking.
- 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
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African 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
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- 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)
Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb
Life is a choice.
- Anonymous
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
He who hesitates is lost.
- Proverb
You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
You cannot discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
- Anonymous
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
We are most like God when we forgive.
- Anonymous
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
- Anonymous
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous
Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb
Whatever it takes.
- Anonymous
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes,
but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done,
even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse.
There lies freedom, indeed.
- Anonymous
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
Don't ask questions about fairy tales.
- Yiddish Proverb
Be who you are and say what you feel
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind.
- commonly but falsely attributed to Dr. Seuss,
this misquote consists of the Bernard Baruch quote,
"Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
with additional words added anonymously.
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
- American Indian Proverb
No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous
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