Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover. ~Sabrina Jeffries
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing. ~Matt Damon
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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People say, "Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?" But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you? ~John C. Reilly
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Proverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. ~Abdallah II of Jordan
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese 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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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I was very young. I thought I knew a lot and I really didn't. I trusted the wrong people. ~Tia Carrere
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive. ~Abraham Maslow
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What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. ~Ronald Dworkin
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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