Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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I got into real estate very much by accident. ~Jeff Greene
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish Proverb
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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I hate to lose, and I do whatever I can to win, and if it is ugly, it is ugly. ~Pete Sampras
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for. ~Brian Tracy
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Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result. ~Lyle Lovett
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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You must remember the value that you add to others and not just what others have added to you. That's how we build self-worth, which, in my opinion, is just as important as net worth. ~Suze Orman
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. ~Caleb Cushing
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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