You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. ...
by Anonymous

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

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

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

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

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

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)

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

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster

No good comes from hurrying.
- 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

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

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous

Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous

In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous

Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb

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

Roll with the punches.
- Anonymous

Return love for hate.
- Anonymous

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

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

Follow your own star.
- Anonymous

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

Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland

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

Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb

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

Never quit.
- Anonymous

We hate in others what we most fear in ourselves.
- Anonymous

Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb

You cannot soar with eagles when you are running with ducks.
- Anonymous

Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Proverb

Time cures all things.
- Proverb

Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous

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

Time flies.
- Anonymous

Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb

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

Don't quit.
- Anonymous

Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous

If there is a will, there is a way.
- 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 key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous

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

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

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

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

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

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

Life is a choice.
- 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

It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb

True love has no limits.
- Anonymous

Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb

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

Failing to plan is planning to fail.
- Anonymous

We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous

Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous

When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous

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

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

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