Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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A lot of people are simply interested in exploring their own spirituality, their own values, who they are, whether they're happy where they are. ~James Redfield
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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Truth is time's daughter. ~Spanish Proverb
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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Remember the street car cannot turn out. ~Charles Melville Hays
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone. ~Charles Ghigna
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He tends to redefine the way stories are told in a specific genre, whether it's "China Beach," "The West Wing," or "E.R." ~Michael Cudlitz
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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