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
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
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
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese 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
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
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
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
He who has health has hope,
and he who has hope has everything.
- Anonymous
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- 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.
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous
Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb
Never give up.
- Anonymous
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
- English Proverb
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
You cannot soar with eagles when you are running with ducks.
- Anonymous
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
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
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb
Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits.
- Anonymous
Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous
When all else fails, try thinking.
- 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
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous
Better late than never.
- Proverb
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
Life is a choice.
- Anonymous
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese 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
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Never quit.
- Anonymous
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
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