Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not. ~Jane Austen
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I'm a much better mother at 46, than if I were like, 21 or 25. ~Halle Berry
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that. ~U.G. Krishnamurti
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Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop. ~Roshon Fegan
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The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you. ~Philip Roth
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The world will be balanced when we are balanced. ~Tarthang Tulku
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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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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. ~Leigh Bardugo
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. ~Azerbaijani Proverb
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives. ~James Bovard
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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