We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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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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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay. ~John Schlesinger
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I have a collection of 50-plus snapback hats. ~James Harden
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Earth is dearer than gold. ~English Proverb
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~French Proverb
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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