Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me. ~Chuck Mangione
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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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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ~William Griffith Wilson
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan 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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Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite. ~Dan Wells
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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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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind. ~Francis Bacon
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