Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb
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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
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
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We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish 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
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
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
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
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Expectations Diminish Joy.
- Anonymous
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous
Appreciate the Unexpected.
- Anonymous
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
- American Indian Proverb
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
- Anonymous
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
Many hands make light work.
- 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
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
Don't ask questions about fairy tales.
- Yiddish 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
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
Return love for hate.
- Anonymous
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but think you can't
It's almost a cinch you won't.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
- Anonymous
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
All's well that ends well.
- Proverb (and title of a Shakespeare play)
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
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
Hunker down.
- Anonymous
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- 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)
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
He who hesitates is lost.
- Proverb
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous
Reach for the stars.
- Anonymous
Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist Proverb
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