If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
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Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb 
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
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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
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
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
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster
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
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
He who has health has hope,
and he who has hope has everything.
- Anonymous
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- 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)
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
Never give up.
- Anonymous
Life is a choice.
- Anonymous
If you want to be happy,
put your effort into controlling the sail, not the wind.
- Anonymous
Don't ask questions about fairy tales.
- Yiddish Proverb
When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- Anonymous
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
- English Proverb
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
Hunker down.
- Anonymous
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous
Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous
Excellence is the result of
caring more than others think wise,
risking more than other's think safe,
dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible.
- Anonymous
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
- Anonymous
No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
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
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
We hate in others what we most fear in ourselves.
- Anonymous
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
Roll with the punches.
- Anonymous
You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
Time flies.
- Anonymous
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
The grass is not always greener
on the other side of the fence.
Fences have nothing to do with it.
The grass is greenest where it is watered.
When crossing over fences, carry water with you
and tend the grass wherever you may be.
- Anonymous
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