The worst things in life are: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not. (Arab Proverb) - More Arab Proverbs...
Life itself cannot give you joy/ Unless you really will it./ Life just gives you time and space -- It's up to you to fill it. (Chinese Proverb) - More Chinese Proverbs...
If you would be happy for a week, take a wife; if you would be happy for a month, kill a pig; but if you would be happy all your life, plant a garden. (Chinese Proverb) - More Chinese Proverbs...
If the bread in the oven is a failure you lose a week; if the harvest is a failure you lose a year; if marriage is a failure then you lose a life. (Estonian Proverb) - More Estonian Proverbs...
Poor in my youth, and in life's later scenes - Rich to no end, I curse my natal hour, Who naught enjoyed while young, denied the means And naught when old enjoyed, denied the power (Greek Proverb) - More Greek Proverbs...
Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work. (Indian Proverb) - More Indian Proverbs...
For the first five years of your son's life treat him as a prince, for the next ten years as a slave, then as a friend for the rest of his life. (Indian Proverb) - More Indian Proverbs...