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I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
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Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
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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
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English 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
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
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
Calm provides clarity. Pause to consider
the gifts you have been given,
the difference you have made
and the direction in which you are headed.
- Anonymous
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
If you want to be happy,
put your effort into controlling the sail, not the wind.
- Anonymous
Dance like no one is watching,
love like you'll never be hurt.
Sing like no one is listening.
Live life like it's heaven on earth.
- Anonymous (various attributions and alternate phrasings)
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
If the problem can be solved,
there is no use worrying about it.
If it can't be solved,
worrying will do no good.
- Tibetan proverb
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
Carpe Diem (Seize the day)
- Latin Proverb
Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb
Never quit.
- Anonymous
Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
Appreciate the Unexpected.
- Anonymous
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
- Anonymous
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
Believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
Reach for the stars.
- Anonymous
All the darkness of the world cannot
extinguish the light of a single candle,
yet one candle can illuminate all the darkness.
- Jewish Hanukah Prayer
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
- Anonymous
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Anonymous
You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous
Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
Roll with the punches.
- Anonymous
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Peace is the ultimate blessing.
- Jewish traditional
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