A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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proverbiosThere 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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We need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts. ~Stephen King
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth. ~Danielle Steel
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. ~Phil Jackson
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Most clients expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single research study. It must be an ongoing effort, a process of continually learning about users, responding to their behaviors, and evolving the product or service. ~Dan Brown
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish 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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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. ~Maya Angelou
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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