The key to happiness is not to have what you want
by Anonymous

The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous

Related topics: Inspirational Life Human-Nature Psychology Wisdom Attitude Thanks Simple Happiness

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

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

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

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

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

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

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

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

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

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

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

Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- 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

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

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

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

If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb

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

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

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

A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb

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

The grass is not always greener
on the other side of the fence.
Fences have nothing to do with it.
The grass is greenest where it is watered.
When crossing over fences, carry water with you
and tend the grass wherever you may be.
- Anonymous

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

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

We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous

The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb

All's well that ends well.
- Proverb (and title of a Shakespeare play)

Don't quit.
- Anonymous

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

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland

When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)

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

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

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

IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous

Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous

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

Persistence prevails when all else fails.
- Anonymous

No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous

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

May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous

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

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
- American Indian Proverb

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

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

The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous

It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb

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

Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb

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

Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous

Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous

When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous

You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous

When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb

Carpe Diem (Seize the day)
- Latin Proverb

Time flies.
- Anonymous

Many hands make light work.
- Proverb

Time cures all things.
- Proverb

When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying

Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous

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