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A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
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All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
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He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
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
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
You cannot discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
- Anonymous
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
- Anonymous
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
- American Indian Proverb
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
Time flies.
- Anonymous
You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous
We hate in others what we most fear in ourselves.
- Anonymous
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
All's well that ends well.
- Proverb (and title of a Shakespeare play)
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
Never give up.
- Anonymous
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
Every dog has his day.
- Proverb
Better late than never.
- Proverb
Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
Roll with the punches.
- 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
Follow your own star.
- Anonymous
Whatever it takes.
- Anonymous
He who has health has hope,
and he who has hope has everything.
- Anonymous
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
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