When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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No one can advise or help you; no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart. Delve into yourself for a deep answer ~Rainer Maria Rilke
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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I think when it comes to botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices. ~Debra Winger
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Sam Shoemaker
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go. ~Charles Bukowski
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The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up, it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together. ~Michael Light
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People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. ~Galileo Galilei
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Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service. ~Doris Kearns Goodwin
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
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