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The key to happiness is not to have what you want
by Anonymous

The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous

Related topics: Inspirational Life Human-Nature Psychology Wisdom Attitude Thanks Simple Happiness

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

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

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

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- 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

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous

Don't quit.
- Anonymous

Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous

A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous

The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb

Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb

Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb

Believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous

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

It's never too late.
- Anonymous

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

In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous

Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb

Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb

Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb

Don't ask questions about fairy tales.
- Yiddish Proverb

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

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

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist Proverb

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

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

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

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

Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb

You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous

Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous

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

Roll with the punches.
- Anonymous

Follow your own star.
- Anonymous

Return love for hate.
- Anonymous

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

You cannot discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
- 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)

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

Persistence prevails when all else fails.
- Anonymous

Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous

Reach for the stars.
- Anonymous

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

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

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian 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

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

Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous

Slow but steady wins the race.
- Anonymous

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous

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

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

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)

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

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