Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it. ~Confucius
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. ~Pearl Bailey
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains. ~Hobart Brown
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish 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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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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You must remember the value that you add to others and not just what others have added to you. That's how we build self-worth, which, in my opinion, is just as important as net worth. ~Suze Orman
#quotes #suze-orman #self #helping

He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor. ~Jennifer James
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The end never comes when you think it will. It is always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~Lena Dunham
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs #time #progress

It is extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now. ~Daniel Yergin
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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I can't say I'm one way or the other because I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is. ~Evan Rachel Wood
#quotes #evan-rachel-wood #love

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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One thing I like about Twitter is that you can hear it from the horse's mouth. ~Big Boi
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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