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A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
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He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish 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
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
We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
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
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
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist Proverb
Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb
That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb
Time flies.
- Anonymous
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb
When all else fails, try thinking.
- 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)
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
Life is a choice.
- Anonymous
Return love for hate.
- Anonymous
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
Reach for the stars.
- Anonymous
Whatever it takes.
- Anonymous
Better late than never.
- Proverb
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
All's well that ends well.
- Proverb (and title of a Shakespeare play)
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Follow your own star.
- Anonymous
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
You cannot soar with eagles when you are running with ducks.
- Anonymous
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
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