One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence. ~Jay Duplass
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You can trust the promise of this opening. Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning. That is at one with your life's desire. ~John O'Donohue
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me. ~Joe Torre
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~English Proverb
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You seek problems because you need their gifts. ~Richard Bach
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves. When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, presuming on their changeful potency. ~William Shakespeare
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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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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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