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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
Related topics: Wisdom Positive Action
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
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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