It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
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See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
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
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish 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
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish 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
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese 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
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish 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
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
Don't ask questions about fairy tales.
- Yiddish Proverb
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
Whatever it takes.
- Anonymous
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
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.
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
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
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
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits.
- Anonymous
All's well that ends well.
- Proverb (and title of a Shakespeare play)
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
- American Indian Proverb
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
Believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
We hate in others what we most fear in ourselves.
- Anonymous
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Roll with the punches.
- Anonymous
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
He who has health has hope,
and he who has hope has everything.
- Anonymous
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