proverbios"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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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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Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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My real heroes have always been sports-writers. ~Dan Jenkins
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
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What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. ~Sylvia Plath
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~Plato
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Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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