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I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Related topics: Inspirational Life Human-Nature Psychology Wisdom Gratitude Perspective
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 
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
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Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Happiness is a choice.
- 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
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
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)
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
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
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- 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
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
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
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- Anonymous
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
- 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
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
Peace is the ultimate blessing.
- Jewish traditional
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- 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
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
Follow Your Dreams.
- Anonymous
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
- 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)
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
We are most like God when we forgive.
- Anonymous
You Create Your Own Reality.
- 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
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
Change comes from within.
- Anonymous
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Never quit.
- Anonymous
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland
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)
The will of God will never take you
to where the grace of God will not protect you.
- Anonymous
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Reach for the stars.
- Anonymous
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Never give up.
- Anonymous
The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous
Hunker down.
- Anonymous
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
That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits.
- Anonymous
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