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Great oaks from little acorns grow. ...
by Anonymous

Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb

Related topics: Wisdom

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

We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster

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

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

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

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

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

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)

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

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous

Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous

Happiness is a choice.
- 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

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish 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

Better late than never.
- Proverb

That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb

Failing to plan is planning to fail.
- Anonymous

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb

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

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

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

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

The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
- Anonymous

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

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)

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

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous

Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb

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

You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous

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

The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous

Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous

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

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

A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb

March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb

Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb

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

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

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb

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

Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb

Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits.
- Anonymous

It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb

Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb

Return love for hate.
- Anonymous

He who hesitates is lost.
- Proverb

Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb

Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
- American Indian Proverb

Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous

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

All's well that ends well.
- Proverb (and title of a Shakespeare play)

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

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