All the darkness of the world cannot
by Anonymous

All the darkness of the world cannot
extinguish the light of a single candle,
yet one candle can illuminate all the darkness.
- Jewish Hanukah Prayer

Related topics: Inspirational Spiritual Positive

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- 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

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- 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

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous

Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb

Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- 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

Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous

Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous

Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb

Failing to plan is planning to fail.
- Anonymous

If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous

Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb

Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous

Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb

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

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb

One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)

Many hands make light work.
- Proverb

From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb

Expectations Diminish Joy.
- Anonymous

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb

It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous

He who hesitates is lost.
- Proverb

Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb

Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb

In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb

Slow but steady wins the race.
- Anonymous

Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb

Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb

You cannot soar with eagles when you are running with ducks.
- Anonymous

Don't quit.
- Anonymous

Return love for hate.
- Anonymous

The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous

Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous

I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb

Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb

When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous

Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous

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

You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous

That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb

Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb

Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb

Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- 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)

Never quit.
- Anonymous

Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous

Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous

Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie