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The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Related topics: Wisdom
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
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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 good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
Believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
Never quit.
- Anonymous
Roll with the punches.
- Anonymous
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Appreciate the Unexpected.
- Anonymous
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
Never give up.
- Anonymous
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)
Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
Anything Is Possible.
- Anonymous
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
Hunker down.
- Anonymous
Follow Your Dreams.
- 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)
Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
Expectations Diminish Joy.
- Anonymous
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
Never stop dreaming.
- 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
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
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