He who trusts all things to chance,
makes a lottery of his life
- Proverb
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
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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
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
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
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
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
Persistence prevails when all else fails.
- Anonymous
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous
Reach for the stars.
- 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
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist Proverb
Return love for hate.
- Anonymous
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Better late than never.
- Proverb
No pain, no gain.
- 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)
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
Follow your own star.
- 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)
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Never quit.
- Anonymous
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- 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
Life is a choice.
- Anonymous
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- 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.
Don't ask questions about fairy tales.
- Yiddish Proverb
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
Whatever it takes.
- Anonymous
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb
All's well that ends well.
- Proverb (and title of a Shakespeare play)
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
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