Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. ~Proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. ~Helen Mirren
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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