A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that is largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and our management teams tight-knit. I feel that small, compact companies, are better run. That is partly because people feel more connected in small companies. ~Richard Branson
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent. ~Thomas E. Sniegoski
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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Once I saw my parents argue because we didn't have a lot of money anymore. So, I did what I had to do. I got my piggy bank and I went out to the backyard and buried it. ~Jack Handey
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church. ~Johnny Hunt
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