I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive; those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ~Osamu Dazai
#quotes #osamu-dazai #life #mother #hardship

My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all. ~Alice Eve
#quotes #alice-eve #childhood #clothing

Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~Phyllis Diller
#quotes #phyllis-diller #children #family

A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York. ~Roy Ayers
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every decision you make is a mistake. ~Edward Dahlberg
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We can't afford as a nation; not because of money but because of our social fabric; to have large numbers of people who are not working. ~Donna Shalala
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Our problem with desire is that we want too little. ~C. S. Lewis
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. ~Gary Ross
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Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish. ~Theodor Reik
#quotes #theodor-reik #women #men #love

An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French 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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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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