Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes,
by 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

Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Free-Will

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

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

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

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

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

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

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster

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

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- 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

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

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous

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

In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous

Reach for the stars.
- Anonymous

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist Proverb

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)

A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb

Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous

Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
- Anonymous

Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous

If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous

When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous

Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous

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

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

Many hands make light work.
- Proverb

The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous

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

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

Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous

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

Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb

Life is what you make it.
- 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

Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb

Better late than never.
- Proverb

To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous

Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb

If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb

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

If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous

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

Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous

Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous

Don't quit.
- Anonymous

Follow your own star.
- Anonymous

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

Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous

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

Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb

A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous

It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous

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

You cannot discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
- Anonymous

Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous

Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb

Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb

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