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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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. ~Tom Robbins
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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Love's in need of love today, don't delay; send yours in right away. ~Stevie Wonder
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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What exists is a godly existence, a divine existence. God not as a person but as a presence certainly exists. But to understand that presence, you have to understand your own inner presence first, because it is from there that you can take off, it is from there that you can have the first glimpse of what godliness is. If you have not known yourself you will never know God. ~Rajneesh
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness. ~Yotam Ottolenghi
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Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. ~Peter Stuyvesant
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You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after. ~Taylor Swift
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me. ~Anna Kournikova
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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