A man's good name is his best monument ...
by Anonymous

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

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

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

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

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

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

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous

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

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

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish 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

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

He who hesitates is lost.
- Proverb

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

It's never too late.
- Anonymous

Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb

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

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

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

Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb

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

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

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

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

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

The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous

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

Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous

Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb

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

Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous

Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous

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

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

A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous

Time cures all things.
- Proverb

Anything Is Possible.
- Anonymous

Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Proverb

Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb

When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous

He who has health has hope,
and he who has hope has everything.
- Anonymous

Believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

True love has no limits.
- Anonymous

Better late than never.
- Proverb

Carpe Diem (Seize the day)
- Latin Proverb

The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous

Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb

Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb

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

Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb

Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb

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

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

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

Don't ask questions about fairy tales.
- Yiddish Proverb

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