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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The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story. ~Scott Rudin
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A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager. I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I did'nt really care. It did'nt bother me at all. ~Vivienne Westwood
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When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats. ~Jill Lepore
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ~Paul Michael Glaser
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you do not wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
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Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously? ~Steve Stevaert
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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive. ~George Santayana
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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Our problem with desire is that we want too little. ~C. S. Lewis
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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All my friends I've known since I was really little. ~Leona Lewis
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