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The grass is not always greener
by Anonymous

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

Related topics: Wisdom Positive Action

Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb PHOTO

Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous PHOTO

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous

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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

Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish 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

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous

Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- 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

The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous

We are most like God when we forgive.
- Anonymous

If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb

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

When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- Anonymous

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

Follow Your Dreams.
- Anonymous

If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb

Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
- Anonymous

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous

The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous

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

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Anonymous

Change comes from within.
- Anonymous

I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous

Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous

He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb

If you want to be happy,
put your effort into controlling the sail, not the wind.
- Anonymous

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
- 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)

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

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous

He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- 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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous

Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb

That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb

IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous

Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous

Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb

Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman 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

Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous

Hunker down.
- 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)

The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous

Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb

In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous

Roll with the punches.
- Anonymous

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish 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

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous

The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous

No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous


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