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The grass is not always greener
by Anonymous

The grass is not always greener
on the other side of the fence.
Fences have nothing to do with it.
The grass is greenest where it is watered.
When crossing over fences, carry water with you
and tend the grass wherever you may be.
- Anonymous

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All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

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

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

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

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster

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

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

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

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

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous

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

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous

Happiness is a choice.
- 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

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

Many hands make light work.
- Proverb

Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb

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

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous

The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous

Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb

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

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

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

Failing to plan is planning to fail.
- Anonymous

Never quit.
- Anonymous

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

Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits.
- Anonymous

Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous

Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
- English Proverb

Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb

Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb

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

No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous

Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb

He who hesitates is lost.
- Proverb

A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb

Every dog has his day.
- Proverb

Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous

Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous

Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb

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

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)

Appreciate the Unexpected.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

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

Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous

Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb

Believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb

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

The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous

The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous

Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- 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

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

Don't quit.
- Anonymous

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

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

Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb

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