Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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When the legs go, the heart soon follows ~John Wooden
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans. ~Lynda Resnick
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. ~Rumi
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~James Stephens
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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