I have noticed that people tend to stop maturing when they start self-medicating. Everyone has very tough seasons of life, but by persevering through them we have an opportunity to mature and grow as people. Those who self-medicate, often thwart maturity as they escape the tough seasons of life rather than face them. ~Mark Driscoll
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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts. ~Soren Kierkegaard
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
#quotes #franco-nero #eating

Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed. ~Kent McCord
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Every step of life shows much caution is required. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life. I'm not saying I'm a role model by any means or anything. I think the fact that I wasn't told what not to do all the time - my spirit kind of told me things that I shouldn't. I got to develop on my own. It's part of your common sense. ~Randy Houser
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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. ~Tom Robbins
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Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I am getting old and I need something to rely on. So tell me when you are going to let me in. I am getting tired and I need somewhere to begin. ~Bil Keane
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ~Daisaku Ikeda
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ~Jean Genet
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places. ~Fred Kent
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The world will be balanced when we are balanced. ~Tarthang Tulku
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. ~Donald Davis
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