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If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Related topics: Wisdom
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous 
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
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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Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish 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
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
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
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
We are most like God when we forgive.
- Anonymous
Follow Your Dreams.
- Anonymous
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
- Anonymous
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish 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)
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
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- 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
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Change comes from within.
- 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
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
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
Peace is the ultimate blessing.
- Jewish traditional
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
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
- Anonymous
If you want to be happy,
put your effort into controlling the sail, not the wind.
- 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
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
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits.
- 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
The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- 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
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous
Reach for the stars.
- Anonymous
Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous
Never give up.
- Anonymous
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland
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
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
Appreciate the Unexpected.
- Anonymous
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