It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~Woody Allen
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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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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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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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In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human. ~Elie Wiesel
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. ~Seth Godin
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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You're a product just as much. A product of a product. The people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. The minister in your church, another product. ~Chuck Palahniuk
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament. ~Hannah More
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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