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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist 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
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
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
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
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
We are most like God when we forgive.
- Anonymous
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
- Anonymous
Roll with the punches.
- Anonymous
Hunker down.
- Anonymous
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Never quit.
- Anonymous
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
Believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
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
Never give up.
- Anonymous
Carpe Diem (Seize the day)
- Latin Proverb
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
Peace is the ultimate blessing.
- Jewish traditional
One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb
Appreciate the Unexpected.
- Anonymous
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- 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)
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
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)
Reach for the stars.
- Anonymous
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous
You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
- Anonymous
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous
Anything Is Possible.
- Anonymous
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
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