We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
#quotes #andrea-gibson #sorrow

When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, "What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?" ~Matt Reeves
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These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to. ~Jackson Browne
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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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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
#quotes #norman-lear #family #racism

Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish 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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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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