If you want to be happy,
by Anonymous

If you want to be happy,
put your effort into controlling the sail, not the wind.
- Anonymous

Related topics: Inspirational Motivational

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

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

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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

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

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster

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

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- 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

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

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

Reach for the stars.
- Anonymous

Everything is not as it appears to be.
- 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

If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb

Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb

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

Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous

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

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb

Follow your own star.
- Anonymous

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

Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous

Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous

Appreciate the Unexpected.
- Anonymous

Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb

Don't quit.
- Anonymous

Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous

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

Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb

It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous

If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous

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

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

Return love for hate.
- 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.

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

The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- 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

The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous

One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)

Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb

It's never too late.
- Anonymous

The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous

Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous

Never give up.
- Anonymous

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous

Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb

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

Laughter is the best medicine.
- 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

It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous

It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb

Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb

If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb

Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb

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

Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie