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The grass is not always greener
on the other side of the fence.
Fences have nothing to do with it.
The grass is greenest where it is watered.
When crossing over fences, carry water with you
and tend the grass wherever you may be.
- Anonymous
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All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb 
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- 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
We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
Everything you say and do,
is a reflection of the inner you.
- Anonymous
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Envy breeds hate.
- 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
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Life's a game, all you have to do is know how to play it.
- Anonymous
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
Life doesn't play favorites.
- Anonymous
Hell is living with someone who complains, whines, and argues.
- Anonymous
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Happiness is a state of mind.
- Anonymous
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
The show must go on.
- Proverb
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
Slow but steady wins the race.
- Anonymous
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
Appreciate the Unexpected.
- Anonymous
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits.
- Anonymous
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous
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
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
Never quit.
- Anonymous
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
Anything Is Possible.
- Anonymous
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
Time flies.
- Anonymous
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
Never give up.
- Anonymous
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist Proverb
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
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