In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you will create something magical that might be the best thing you have ever accomplished. ~Tori Amos
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You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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A dimple on the chin, the devil within. ~Gaelic Proverb
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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The maxims of men disclose their hearts. ~French Proverb
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It's hard to be a good doctor if you don't think about the social circumstances of who you're treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it's difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right winger. ~Robert Winston
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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