A car is not the only thing that can be recalled by its maker.
A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
Don't put limits on yourself. Don't leave your important decisions to chance. Your life is in your own hands.
Every success is built on the ability to do better than is good enough.
It is more shameful to distrust a friend than to be deceived by one.
It is better to light a candle than to curse in the darkness.
Love isn't about finding someone perfect; it's about learning to love an imperfect person perfectly.
Never lose sight of the importance of a beautiful sunrise, or watching your kids sleep, or the smell of rain. It's often the little things that really matter in life.
Only dead fish go with the flow.
Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.
The eagle that soars in the upper air does not worry itself as to how it is to cross rivers.
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.
Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad.
To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.
We can all travel through time. And we do at the remarkable rate of one second per second.
Yesterday is History
Tomorrow a Mystery
Today is a Gift
That's why it is called the Present
You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
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Mild, He lays His glory by - born that Man no more may die; born to raise the Sons of Earth, born to give them second birth!
Christmas
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Fine feathers make fine birds. Fine words butter no parsnips.
He that lives in hope dances without music.
Women in state affairs are like monkeys in glass-shops.
Proverb
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A known mistake is better than an unknown truth.
Arabian proverb
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Enough shovels of earth — a mountain. Enough pails of water — a river.
Even though you have ten thousand fields, you can eat but one measure of rice a day.
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
The glory is not in ever failing, but in rising every time you fail.
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Chinese proverb
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushful of brains.
Dutch proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
English proverb
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The bitter cup we strive to remove from us holds the medicine we are most in need of.
Gaelic proverb
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A heart that loves is always young.
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Greek proverb
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May the blessed sunshine shine on you and warm your heart til it glows like a great peat fire, so that a stranger may come and warm himself at it, and also a friend.
Irish blessing
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By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.
Italian Proverb
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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Maori proverb
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Don't allow the grass to grow on the path of friendship.
Native American proverb
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What am I to do? I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good work, therefore, any kindness, or any service I can render to any soul of man or animal, let me do it now. Let me not neglect or defer it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Old Quaker Saying
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The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.
Russian saying
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No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
Taoist proverb
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If you can't endure the bad, you'll not live to witness the good.
Yiddish proverb
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