In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. ~Laozi
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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It is very hard to concentrate when your stomach is rumbling. ~Shania Twain
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Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life. ~Joseph Prince
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There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. ~Louis Dudek
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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I dream about people who do not need to have sex to know they love each other. ~Carol Rifka Brunt
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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Are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love? ~Cecelia Ahern
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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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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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
#quotes #charlize-theron #travel #world #south-africa

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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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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Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
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The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein. ~Jerry Brown
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Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members. ~St. Vincent
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There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives. ~James Bovard
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My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds. ~Annie Leibovitz
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Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for. ~Brian Tracy
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