All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary. ~Karl Lagerfeld
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~Indian Proverb
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor. ~Jennifer James
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are. ~Lauryn Hill
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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For me, poetry is always a search for order. ~Elizabeth Jennings
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth. ~Gary Taubes
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