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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb 
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish 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
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
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)
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
You Create Your Own Reality.
- 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
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
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- 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
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- 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)
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
- 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)
Better late than never.
- Proverb
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
- American Indian Proverb
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
Hell is living with someone who complains, whines, and argues.
- Anonymous
Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
- Anonymous
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
Happiness is a state of mind.
- Anonymous
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
Everything you say and do,
is a reflection of the inner you.
- Anonymous
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
He who hesitates is lost.
- Proverb
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and 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)
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Change comes from within.
- Anonymous
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist Proverb
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
Don't ask questions about fairy tales.
- Yiddish Proverb
Expectations Diminish Joy.
- Anonymous
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Anonymous
We are most like God when we forgive.
- Anonymous
You cannot discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
- Anonymous
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
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