If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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Until you destroy your body, you don't learn to appreciate it. Treat the body like a temple because the body is so beautiful. If and when you understand your body then you will respect it. The body is like a bud, until the sun rises it will not bloom, until it blooms it will not be beautiful or give perfume. So respect it, take care of it. ~Bikram Choudhury
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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You're out on stage, the music is blaring, the crowd is screaming, the lights are flashing, your heart is pumping, the sweat is flying, and it's the greatest feeling in the whole world. ~Michael Flatley
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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that. ~David Kay
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I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal. ~Benjamin Carson
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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"You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television? ~James Patterson
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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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