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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous 
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
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
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Happiness is a choice.
- 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
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous
Never give up.
- Anonymous
You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
Never quit.
- Anonymous
Appreciate the Unexpected.
- Anonymous
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- 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)
Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb
Anything Is Possible.
- Anonymous
Roll with the punches.
- Anonymous
Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
Hunker down.
- Anonymous
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
Believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Proverb
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb
Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
Expectations Diminish Joy.
- Anonymous
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
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