Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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Movements are as eloquent as words. ~Isadora Duncan
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ~Nguyen Cao Ky
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The healing of ourselves as healers has to take place first. Bringing ourselves to wholeness, we become more sensitive to other people. In the change of consciousness that happens within us, we bring about change of consciousness in those around us and in the planet itself. ~Marion Woodman
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work. ~Hanneli Mustaparta
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic 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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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. ~Caleb Cushing
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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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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