I have noticed that people tend to stop maturing when they start self-medicating. Everyone has very tough seasons of life, but by persevering through them we have an opportunity to mature and grow as people. Those who self-medicate, often thwart maturity as they escape the tough seasons of life rather than face them. ~Mark Driscoll
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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. ~Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. ~Dick Cheney
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Beggars can't be choosers. ~English Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change. ~Mitch Kapor
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These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to. ~Jackson Browne
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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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Sorrow is brief but joy is endless ~Friedrich Schiller
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots. ~Derek Jeter
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund "Obamacare." They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the "Obamacare" program. ~Paul Ryan
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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
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