You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ~Ice T
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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for. ~Brian Tracy
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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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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin Proverb
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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Let us help build the kingdom of God by standing up boldly and being defenders of marriage, parenthood, and the home. ~Bonnie L. Oscarson
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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