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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb
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Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish 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
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
No good comes from hurrying.
- 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
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
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)
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
- 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
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous
Expectations Diminish Joy.
- Anonymous
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
Believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
- American Indian Proverb
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
Time flies.
- Anonymous
Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
Slow but steady wins the race.
- Anonymous
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
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
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
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
Don't quit.
- Anonymous
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
Hunker down.
- Anonymous
Appreciate the Unexpected.
- Anonymous
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
He who has health has hope,
and he who has hope has everything.
- Anonymous
Don't ask questions about fairy tales.
- Yiddish Proverb
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Never give up.
- Anonymous
The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
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