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Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
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
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
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- 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)
You cannot discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
- Anonymous
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
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
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish 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
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
Believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
Peace is the ultimate blessing.
- Jewish traditional
Appreciate the Unexpected.
- Anonymous
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits.
- Anonymous
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb
No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
Roll with the punches.
- Anonymous
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
Follow Your Dreams.
- Anonymous
Keep the Faith.
- 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
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- Anonymous
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Anonymous
Change comes from within.
- 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)
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
If you want to be happy,
put your effort into controlling the sail, not the wind.
- Anonymous
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
- Anonymous
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
Reach for the stars.
- Anonymous
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