Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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The end never comes when you think it will. It is always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~Lena Dunham
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If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed, in exactly the right position, to make all the difference in the world. ~James Redfield
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting. ~Linda Ronstadt
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant. ~Paul Dirac
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic 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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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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Gardening is a humbling experience. ~Martha Stewart
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