Talk doesn't cook rice.
- Chinese Proverb
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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
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
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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
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish 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
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Carpe Diem (Seize the day)
- Latin Proverb
Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- 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
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
Never quit.
- Anonymous
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous
Slow but steady wins the race.
- Anonymous
Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Proverb
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous
If you want to be happy,
put your effort into controlling the sail, not the wind.
- Anonymous
He who has health has hope,
and he who has hope has everything.
- Anonymous
The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb
Don't ask questions about fairy tales.
- Yiddish Proverb
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
He who hesitates is lost.
- Proverb
You cannot soar with eagles when you are running with ducks.
- Anonymous
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
Calm provides clarity. Pause to consider
the gifts you have been given,
the difference you have made
and the direction in which you are headed.
- 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
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous
Life is a choice.
- Anonymous
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
You cannot discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
- Anonymous
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
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