To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
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No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
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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
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese 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
You Create Your Own Reality.
- 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
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- 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
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
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- 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
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
- Anonymous
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
- American Indian Proverb
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
You cannot discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
- Anonymous
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- 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.
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
He who has health has hope,
and he who has hope has everything.
- 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
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
Appreciate the Unexpected.
- Anonymous
Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits.
- 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
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous
Life is a choice.
- Anonymous
You cannot soar with eagles when you are running with ducks.
- Anonymous
Persistence prevails when all else fails.
- Anonymous
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous
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