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Books and friends should be few but good. ...
by Anonymous

Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous PHOTO

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous PHOTO

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous PHOTO

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

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

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

 

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

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

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous

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

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous

Happiness is a choice.
- 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

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

Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous

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

The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous

Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits.
- Anonymous

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous

Reach for the stars.
- Anonymous

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

IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous

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

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

Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous

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

Follow Your Dreams.
- Anonymous

March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb

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

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

A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous

Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb

Every dog has his day.
- Proverb

The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous

Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous

You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous

An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous

If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

If you want to be happy,
put your effort into controlling the sail, not the wind.
- Anonymous

Live and let live.
- Yiddish 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)

Follow your own star.
- Anonymous

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

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)

The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous

Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb

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

Failing to plan is planning to fail.
- Anonymous

Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb

Change comes from within.
- Anonymous

He who has health has hope,
and he who has hope has everything.
- Anonymous

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

Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous

When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying

Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb

The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous

Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous

We hate in others what we most fear in ourselves.
- Anonymous

Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous

Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb

You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous

True love has no limits.
- Anonymous

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