Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws. ~Ernest Holmes
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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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 not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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After all the evidence is in, after you've run all the facts by everything you know, and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. ~Christopher Moore
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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