Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it. ~Confucius
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be. ~Joe Sakic
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I think I'm doing some good. Obviously, I don't need any more money. ~Joe Jamail
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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There are no limits, only obstacles, and any obstacle can be overcome. ~David Belle
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They were close to the end of the beginning... ~Stephen King
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We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn't it comforting to know God isn't ever broken? He isn't ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next. ~Lysa TerKeurst
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We cannot come to honour under coverlet. ~George Herbert
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves. When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, presuming on their changeful potency. ~William Shakespeare
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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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Will is stronger than fact; it can mold and overcome fact. ~H. G. Wells
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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In wintertime I like to wear flannel button down pyjamas, and in summer I prefer to wear, well; nothing. ~Phoebe Tonkin
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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I live in the moment. ~Amy Sedaris
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I live for now, not for what happens after I die. ~Liam Gallagher
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You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations. ~Gavin de Becker
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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