All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen 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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The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. ~Anne O'Hare McCormick
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. ~Sallust
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I would bring things to class that I had cooked at home. ~Giada De Laurentiis
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Beggars can't be choosers. ~English 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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I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. ~Emily Bronte
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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