You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
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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
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English 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
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
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
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- 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
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
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
You cannot soar with eagles when you are running with ducks.
- Anonymous
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
Actions speak louder than words.
- 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 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.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous
Never give up.
- Anonymous
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
Roll with the punches.
- Anonymous
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
Reach for the stars.
- 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)
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
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous
The grass is not always greener
on the other side of the fence.
Fences have nothing to do with it.
The grass is greenest where it is watered.
When crossing over fences, carry water with you
and tend the grass wherever you may be.
- Anonymous
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
Carpe Diem (Seize the day)
- Latin Proverb
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
Whatever it takes.
- Anonymous
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- 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)
Hunker down.
- Anonymous
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
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