You don't marry someone you can live with,
you marry the person who you cannot live without.
- Anonymous
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
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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
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
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
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
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
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
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- 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
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
Expectations Diminish Joy.
- Anonymous
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Good things come in small packages.
- old 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
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)
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist Proverb
Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb
He who has health has hope,
and he who has hope has everything.
- Anonymous
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
- American Indian Proverb
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.
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
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
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
All's well that ends well.
- Proverb (and title of a Shakespeare play)
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb
Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
You cannot discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
- Anonymous
Time flies.
- Anonymous
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
Roll with the punches.
- Anonymous
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
- Anonymous
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
- English Proverb
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- 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
Reach for the stars.
- Anonymous
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous
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