A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just let go of your "demand" on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You are arguing with "what is." Your demands keep you chained to the "dream state" of the conditioned mind. The desire to "control" is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake. ~Adyashanti
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I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle; people trying to connect with each other. ~Spike Jonze
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A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible. ~Moby
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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I love layers! ~Alexander Wang
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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. ~Roger Avary
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The necessity for "professionals" in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged. ~Jason Alexander
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow. ~English Proverb
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You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself. ~Truman Capote
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
#quotes #nick-flynn #self #universe #ego

Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again. ~Mara Wilson
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