Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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The necessity for "professionals" in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged. ~Jason Alexander
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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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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. ~James Gray
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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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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion. ~Germaine Greer
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Yes, God wants you to do signs and wonders. But the love of God manifested through you is what people really need. So you first must see His face. You must become so close to His very heartbeat that you can feel what others feel. ~Heidi Baker
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There 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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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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Good things come to those who wait. ~English Proverb
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I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive; those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ~Osamu Dazai
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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