Man plans, God laughs ...
by Anonymous

Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb

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No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

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

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

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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

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

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

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

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous

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

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

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous

Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous

Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb

Appreciate the Unexpected.
- Anonymous

Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb

Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb

Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb

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

The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous

It's never too late.
- Anonymous

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

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb

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

Anything Is Possible.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb

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

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

You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb

Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb

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

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

You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous

Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous

Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
- English Proverb

One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)

Persistence prevails when all else fails.
- Anonymous

From small beginnings come great things.
- 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)

No pain, no gain.
- 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.

Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb

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

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous

Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous

The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous

Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous

Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous

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

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

Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous

We hate in others what we most fear in ourselves.
- Anonymous

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

Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb

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

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

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