proverbs

Learn how to withhold judgment
Learn to listen
Get in touch with your own inner self
Look at life with joy
Don't ever cry over something that cannot cry over you.

"Seek his will in all you do, and he will direct your paths." --Proverbs 3:5-6

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.

Patch grief with proverbs.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

Truth as old as the hills is bound up in the Latin proverb, "Necessity is the mother of invention."

The natives of the South Seas have a fabulous reputation of good seamanship. Nevertheless, there is an old Tongan proverb, "Koe make mangalongalo oku fakafoa vaka." (It is always the hidden reef that sinks a canoe.) So one finds it in mortality-the unforeseen obstacles are most apt to keep a traveler from receiving exaltation.

There's an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to.

A proverb is much matter decocted into a few words.