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We return thanks to our mother,
by Anonymous

We return thanks to our mother,
the earth, which sustains us.
We return thanks to the rivers and streams
which supply us with water.
We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines
for the cure of our diseases.
We return thanks to the corn, and to her sisters,
the beans and squashes, which give us life.
We return thanks to the bushes and trees,
which provide us with fruit.
We return thanks to the wind,
which, moving the air, has banished diseases.
We return thanks to the moon and the stars,
which have given us their light when the sun was gone.
We return thanks to our grandfather He-no,
that he has protected his grandchildren from witches and reptiles,
and has given us his rain.
We return thanks to the sun,
that he has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye.
Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit,
in whom is embodied all goodness,
and who directs all things for the good of his children.
- Iroquois traditional

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb

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

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

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

We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster

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

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

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

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous

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

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

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish 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

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

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

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

Don't quit.
- Anonymous

Reach for the stars.
- Anonymous

Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous

If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous

Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous

Every dog has his day.
- Proverb

Time flies.
- Anonymous

Hunker down.
- Anonymous

Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous

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

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

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

Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb

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

Never quit.
- Anonymous

He who has health has hope,
and he who has hope has everything.
- Anonymous

We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous

Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous

Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous

Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb

Better late than never.
- Proverb

Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous

To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb

Appreciate the Unexpected.
- Anonymous

Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb

He who hesitates is lost.
- Proverb

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland

Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous

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

It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb

Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Proverb

There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous

Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous

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

Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb

True love has no limits.
- Anonymous

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

One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)

Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous

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

The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous

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