I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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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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Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, the romance and you find out, you still care for the person.
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. ~Dave Barry
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In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ~Jerome Bruner
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. ~Peter O'Toole
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From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. ~Stephen LaBerge
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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If you care about the people you work with then you work harder. ~Kristine Lilly
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If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin. ~Joseph Goebbels
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just let go of your "demand" on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You are arguing with "what is." Your demands keep you chained to the "dream state" of the conditioned mind. The desire to "control" is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake. ~Adyashanti
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Love's in need of love today, don't delay; send yours in right away. ~Stevie Wonder
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it. ~Confucius
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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I think that's what makes a good rapper. Somebody who wants to push themselves and their audience further. ~Donald Glover
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It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. ~Hermann Hesse
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