Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing; my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. ~Gary Kemp
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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