A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
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It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it. ~Tommy Tenney
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It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it ~Miley Cyrus
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I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ~Dan Savage
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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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I think that the best rock n' roll is about the spirit of being young, the feeling of being 16 and getting crazy with your friends and going out to a show and just that whole feeling. ~Sebastian Bach
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease. ~Jim Rohn
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies. ~Anna Kournikova
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is. ~Stephen Chbosky
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If you care, do something. If you don't care, please stay out of the way of those who do. ~Simon Sinek
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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