We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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A good companion shortens the longest road. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I am getting old and I need something to rely on. So tell me when you are going to let me in. I am getting tired and I need somewhere to begin. ~Bil Keane
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. ~Edward Hallowell
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you. ~Philip Roth
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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