There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American 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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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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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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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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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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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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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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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen 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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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German 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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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian 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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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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