As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life. ~Tom Petty
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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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I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. ~Ron Perlman
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Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth. ~Madeleine Albright
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If you want something done well, do it yourself. ~English Proverb
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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I don't know if I have a legacy, but I will say that I'm proud of the fact that I'm from a small town in a small state and I've had more than a small impact. ~Tinker Hatfield
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All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you want a friend, be a friend. ~English Proverb
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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