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If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Related topics: Wisdom
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb 
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish 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
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
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
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
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
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Anything Is Possible.
- Anonymous
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
- Anonymous
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
Follow Your Dreams.
- Anonymous
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous
When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- Anonymous
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
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
Reach for the stars.
- Anonymous
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb
Peace is the ultimate blessing.
- Jewish traditional
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
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
- Anonymous
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits.
- Anonymous
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
Hunker down.
- Anonymous
Change comes from within.
- Anonymous
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
You cannot discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
- Anonymous
Appreciate the Unexpected.
- Anonymous
We are most like God when we forgive.
- 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)
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
Never quit.
- Anonymous
Follow your own star.
- Anonymous
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- 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)
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous
Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
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