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The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Related topics: Wisdom
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- 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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Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
Your worst days are never so bad
that you are beyond the reach of God's grace.
And your best days are never so good
that you are beyond the need of God's grace.
- Anonymous
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Change comes from within.
- Anonymous
When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- Anonymous
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
We are most like God when we forgive.
- 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 key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- 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
The will of God will never take you
to where the grace of God will not protect you.
- Anonymous
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
- Anonymous
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish 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
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
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
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Follow Your Dreams.
- Anonymous
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous
Let Go, Let God.
- 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
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
- Anonymous
Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
Roll with the punches.
- Anonymous
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
Better late than never.
- Proverb
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
- American Indian Proverb
Don't ask questions about fairy tales.
- Yiddish Proverb
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
We hate in others what we most fear in ourselves.
- Anonymous
Hunker down.
- Anonymous
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