In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you will create something magical that might be the best thing you have ever accomplished. ~Tori Amos
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
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I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills. I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships. ~Britt Ekland
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful. ~Walter Huston
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Science is changing. God's Word does not change! ~Adrian Rogers
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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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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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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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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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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