Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
Related topics: Wisdom
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous 
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
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
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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
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
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
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
You Create Your Own Reality.
- 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
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
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
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
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
Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous
Follow Your Dreams.
- Anonymous
Change comes from within.
- Anonymous
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
Peace is the ultimate blessing.
- Jewish traditional
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
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)
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
- Anonymous
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
- Anonymous
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
We are most like God when we forgive.
- Anonymous
If you want to be happy,
put your effort into controlling the sail, not the wind.
- Anonymous
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
One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
- 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
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
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)
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
We return thanks to our mother,
the earth, which sustains us.
We return thanks to the rivers and streams
which supply us with water.
We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines
for the cure of our diseases.
We return thanks to the corn, and to her sisters,
the beans and squashes, which give us life.
We return thanks to the bushes and trees,
which provide us with fruit.
We return thanks to the wind,
which, moving the air, has banished diseases.
We return thanks to the moon and the stars,
which have given us their light when the sun was gone.
We return thanks to our grandfather He-no,
that he has protected his grandchildren from witches and reptiles,
and has given us his rain.
We return thanks to the sun,
that he has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye.
Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit,
in whom is embodied all goodness,
and who directs all things for the good of his children.
- Iroquois traditional
No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Return love for hate.
- Anonymous
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous
Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Appreciate the Unexpected.
- Anonymous
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
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