First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind. ~Francis Bacon
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
#quotes #george-e-allen

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. ~Tilda Swinton
#quotes #tilda-swinton #art #soul

I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go. ~Charles Bukowski
#quotes #charles-bukowski #wish

One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
#proverbs #japanese-proverbs #kindness

It is my belief that cooking is a craft. I think that you can push it into the realm of art, but it starts with craft. It starts with an understanding of materials. It starts with an understanding of where foods are grown. ~Tom Colicchio
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That's what acting is; it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives. ~Kerry Washington
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I am having a good time doing nothing. ~Phylicia Rashad
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If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens; men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls. ~Arthur Capper
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The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. ~Robert Smithson
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I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle; people trying to connect with each other. ~Spike Jonze
#quotes #spike-jonze #life #communication

One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #ignorance

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. ~Robert Orben
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
#proverbs #government #mercy

Our problem with desire is that we want too little. ~C. S. Lewis
#quotes #c-s-lewis #desire #wish

Whose diggeth a pit shall fall therein. ~Proverb
#proverbs #karma