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

Related topics: Wisdom

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

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

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

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

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

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

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

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

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

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

We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster

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

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

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

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

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous

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

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

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb

Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb

Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous

Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb

Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb

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

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

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb

Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous

It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb

Many hands make light work.
- Proverb

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

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

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

No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous

March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb

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

Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb

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

Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb

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

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb

From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous

Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb

The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous

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

Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous

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

Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- 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

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

Hunker down.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous

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

Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous

Reach for the stars.
- Anonymous

Life is a choice.
- Anonymous

Persistence prevails when all else fails.
- Anonymous

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

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous

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

Time cures all things.
- Proverb

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