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A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
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Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
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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
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- 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
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese 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
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish 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
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
One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan 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
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
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Anonymous
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
The will of God will never take you
to where the grace of God will not protect you.
- 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)
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
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous
Follow Your Dreams.
- Anonymous
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
Peace is the ultimate blessing.
- Jewish traditional
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
Change comes from within.
- Anonymous
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- Anonymous
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
- Anonymous
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
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
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
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Let Go, Let God.
- Anonymous
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Proverb
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
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
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
Follow your own star.
- Anonymous
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
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