I have noticed that people tend to stop maturing when they start self-medicating. Everyone has very tough seasons of life, but by persevering through them we have an opportunity to mature and grow as people. Those who self-medicate, often thwart maturity as they escape the tough seasons of life rather than face them. ~Mark Driscoll
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The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. ~Lillie Langtry
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio; I don't know that guy. ~Bill Burr
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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Even the smallest of stars shines in the darkness. ~Swedish Proverb
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There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self. ~Ralph Smart
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The cat was created when the lion sneezed. ~Arabic Proverb
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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We can increase the frequency of guiding coincidences by uplifting every person that comes into our lives. Care must be taken not to lose our inner connection in romantic relationships. ~James Redfield
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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That is what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us. ~Kurt Busch
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There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines. ~Ronald Steel
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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The end never comes when you think it will. It is always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~Lena Dunham
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I try to write like the writers I admire, I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase. So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ~Brad Paisley
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay. ~William Cowper
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