Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end. ~Emily Mortimer
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. ~Abba Eban
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The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home. ~Harold B. Lee
#quotes #harold-b-lee #home #family

I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. ~Tim Blake Nelson
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ~Mark Twain
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Idleness is the beginning of all vices. ~Proverb
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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The world will be balanced when we are balanced. ~Tarthang Tulku
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair. ~Viktor E. Frankl
#quotes #viktor-e-frankl #life #books #writing

Nakata is empty inside. Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That is what scares me the most. ~Haruki Murakami
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff. ~Mindy Kaling
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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Every decision you make is a mistake. ~Edward Dahlberg
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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. ~Gary Ross
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Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ~Teri Hatcher
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
#quotes #andrea-gibson #sorrow

Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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