Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same. ~Barbara Kingsolver
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I try to work every day, even when I am not motivated. Ritual is very important to me. ~Mel Ramos
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All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree; I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing. ~Andrea Corr
#quotes #andrea-corr #family #understanding #communication

If Barack Obama is elected, I will be moving out of the country. ~Stephen Baldwin
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. ~Jimi Hendrix
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I think inspiration is always around; it is just a question of whether or not you are noticing it. ~John Green
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
#quotes #edgar-degas #art #attitude

Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ~William Griffith Wilson
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Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog. ~Robert Fulghum
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If the stock goes down we want to buy more. ~Walter Schloss
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained, this is free. ~Veronica Roth
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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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I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life. ~Eva Mendes
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The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace. ~M. Scott Peck
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #action #progress

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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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
#quotes #peter-o-toole #50s #60s

I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~Maria Monk
#quotes #maria-monk #christianity #power