Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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Only the crystal clear question yields a transparent answer. ~Zen Proverb
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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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You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid. ~Viggo Mortensen
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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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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin. ~Arthur Godfrey
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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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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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Death pays all debts. ~English Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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