A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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I am too pure for you or anyone. ~Sylvia Plath
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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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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian Proverb
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish Proverb
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look; that healthy equals beautiful. ~Victoria Principal
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations, well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing. ~James Cromwell
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~James Stephens
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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