Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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Experience this moment to its fullest. ~Zen Proverb
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen 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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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it ~Miley Cyrus
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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