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Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Related topics: Inspirational Spiritual Values Kindness Compassion
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 
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
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Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
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
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Let Go, Let God.
- Anonymous
When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- Anonymous
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- 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
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- 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
The will of God will never take you
to where the grace of God will not protect you.
- 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
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Anonymous
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
One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
- Anonymous
We are most like God when we forgive.
- Anonymous
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
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 want to be happy,
put your effort into controlling the sail, not the wind.
- 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
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Follow Your Dreams.
- Anonymous
Change comes from within.
- Anonymous
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- 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
Hunker down.
- Anonymous
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Appreciate the Unexpected.
- Anonymous
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
Don't quit.
- Anonymous
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Proverb
Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous
Believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Time flies.
- Anonymous
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
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