We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
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No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
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
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
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
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
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- 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
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
We hate in others what we most fear in ourselves.
- Anonymous
You cannot discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
- Anonymous
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
Comparisons are odious.
- old English 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
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
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.
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
Follow your own star.
- Anonymous
Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous
Expectations Diminish Joy.
- Anonymous
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
Better late than never.
- Proverb
That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
The best things in life are free.
- 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
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
You cannot soar with eagles when you are running with ducks.
- Anonymous
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous
Time flies.
- Anonymous
Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous
Return love for hate.
- Anonymous
Never quit.
- Anonymous
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb
He who hesitates is lost.
- Proverb
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Proverb
Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous
Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
All's well that ends well.
- Proverb (and title of a Shakespeare play)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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