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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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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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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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb
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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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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. ~Robert Scheer
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. ~Seth Godin
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The most dangerous food a man can eat is a wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ~Mark Twain
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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