The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish 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
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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
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
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
All things at first appear difficult.
- 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
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- 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
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
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- 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
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish 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
The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous
A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous
Slow but steady wins the race.
- Anonymous
Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
You cannot soar with eagles when you are running with ducks.
- Anonymous
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
Roll with the punches.
- Anonymous
Never quit.
- Anonymous
Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
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.
Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- 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)
Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Proverb
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
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