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If you want to be happy,
by Anonymous

If you want to be happy,
put your effort into controlling the sail, not the wind.
- Anonymous

Related topics: Inspirational Motivational

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

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

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish 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

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

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- 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

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

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

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous

Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous

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

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

Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous

Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb

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

Many hands make light work.
- Proverb

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

Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb

Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb

Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb

Better late than never.
- Proverb

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

Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

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

Believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous

There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous

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

Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb

Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb

Time cures all things.
- Proverb

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

Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous

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

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

Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb

Don't quit.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous

You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous

You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George

Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous

Never give up.
- Anonymous

The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous

May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous

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

It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb

Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb

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

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