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The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- 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
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
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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
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Follow Your Dreams.
- Anonymous
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
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
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
- Anonymous
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
- Anonymous
Peace is the ultimate blessing.
- Jewish traditional
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Anonymous
We are most like God when we forgive.
- Anonymous
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
Change comes from within.
- 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
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
If you want to be happy,
put your effort into controlling the sail, not the wind.
- 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
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- 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)
One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan 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
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- Anonymous
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
You cannot discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
- Anonymous
Reach for the stars.
- Anonymous
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
Appreciate the Unexpected.
- Anonymous
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
Never quit.
- Anonymous
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb
Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb
Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland
Anything Is Possible.
- Anonymous
Follow your own star.
- Anonymous
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous
Let Go, Let God.
- Anonymous
Hunker down.
- Anonymous
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
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