The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon,
by Anonymous

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon,
but that we wait so long to begin it.
- Anonymous

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You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

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

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

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

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

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

We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

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

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

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous

Happiness is a choice.
- 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

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

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

Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits.
- Anonymous

Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous

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

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

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb

Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb

Many hands make light work.
- Proverb

Anything Is Possible.
- Anonymous

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

You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George

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

Reach for the stars.
- Anonymous

Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous

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

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

Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb

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

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

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous

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)

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

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

He who hesitates is lost.
- Proverb

Return love for hate.
- Anonymous

Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb

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

Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous

Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous

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

It's never too late.
- Anonymous

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

Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous

Whatever it takes.
- Anonymous

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

Follow your own star.
- Anonymous

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

Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous

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

Appreciate the Unexpected.
- Anonymous

Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous

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

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

An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous

Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous

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