Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~English Proverb
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian Proverb
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. ~George McGovern
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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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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom. ~Paulo Freire
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If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought. ~Dallas Willard
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events. ~Lisa Ling
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~James Stephens
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Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events. ~Ralph Marston
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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I didn't want to be anyone else. ~Gordon Waller
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The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it is better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown
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I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere. ~Ryan White
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary. ~Karl Lagerfeld
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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