First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind. ~Francis Bacon
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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I enjoyed my life when I had nothing. and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. ~Joey Ramone
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James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond. ~Ken Follett
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There is nothing Dutch about my architecture. ~Rem Koolhaas
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I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life. ~Eva Mendes
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Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. ~Richard Linklater
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When there is no thought, the kundalini rises. When you create a vacuum, something will be drawn into it. The less thought you have, the more kundalini will flow through the chakras, the shushumna. ~Frederick Lenz
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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A good companion shortens the longest road. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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