Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ...
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb

Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Buddhist

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

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

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

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

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

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

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

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

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

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster

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

Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous

Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish 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

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- 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

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous

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

March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb

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

The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- 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.

Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb

Appreciate the Unexpected.
- Anonymous

Carpe Diem (Seize the day)
- Latin Proverb

Better late than never.
- Proverb

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

Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous

The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous

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

True love has no limits.
- Anonymous

Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist 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)

Life is a choice.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous

Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous

Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous

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

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

Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous

Time cures all things.
- Proverb

Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb

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

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

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

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

The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous

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

Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous

Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

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

Never quit.
- 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

Many hands make light work.
- Proverb

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

Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb

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

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

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

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