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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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See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys) 
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
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He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish 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
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- 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
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- 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)
Peace begins with me.
- 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)
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
Never give up.
- Anonymous
That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
We hate in others what we most fear in ourselves.
- Anonymous
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
All's well that ends well.
- Proverb (and title of a Shakespeare play)
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
Change comes from within.
- Anonymous
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
Excellence is the result of
caring more than others think wise,
risking more than other's think safe,
dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible.
- Anonymous
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist Proverb
Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
Happiness is a state of mind.
- Anonymous
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous
Life doesn't play favorites.
- Anonymous
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
- Anonymous
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Anonymous
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
- American Indian Proverb
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