To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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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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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first. ~Tom Hiddleston
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You have got to have a problem that you want to solve, a wrong that you want to right. ~Steve Jobs
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If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for, someone to whom you want to write another heartfelt, slanted, misspelled thank you note, do it. Tell them they made you feel loved and supported. That they made you feel like you belonged somewhere and that you were not a freak. Tell them all of that. Tell them today. ~Lisa Jakub
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When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player? ~Anna Kournikova
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I don't trust a lot of journalists. ~Calvin Klein
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. ~Nhat Hanh
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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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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ~John Polkinghorne
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Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. ~Sarah Michelle Gellar
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop. ~Roshon Fegan
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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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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We are actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself. ~Linda Gray
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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
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