What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive; those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ~Osamu Dazai
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Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound. ~Carolina Herrera
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I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~Phyllis Diller
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly. ~Garth Ennis
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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What kind of knife is this? Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this. ~Scott Lynch
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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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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech 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
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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