Until you destroy your body, you don't learn to appreciate it. Treat the body like a temple because the body is so beautiful. If and when you understand your body then you will respect it. The body is like a bud, until the sun rises it will not bloom, until it blooms it will not be beautiful or give perfume. So respect it, take care of it. ~Bikram Choudhury
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth. ~Gautama Buddha
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ~Benazir Bhutto
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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I love to work, so give me what you have got. I will play a tree, if you want me to. If you want fruit on it, then pay me more money. Otherwise, I just love to work. ~Danny Trejo
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You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress. ~Shimon Peres
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Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them. ~Compton Mackenzie
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That is what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us. ~Kurt Busch
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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Go to your duty, every man, and trust yourself to Christ; for He will give you all supply just as fast as you need it. You will have just as much power as you believe you can have. Be a Christian; throw yourself upon God's work; and get the ability you want in it. ~Horace Bushnell
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Empathy is even better than talking in one language. ~Rumi
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Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market, I have so many vintage pieces from there it is unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules. ~Kaya Scodelario
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover. ~Sabrina Jeffries
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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