Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. ~Gilbert Newton Lewis
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. ~Azerbaijani Proverb
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. ~Ian Somerhalder
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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. ~Leigh Bardugo
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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Good things come to those who wait. ~English Proverb
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly. ~Garth Ennis
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
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