We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die." Black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee." ~Spanish Proverb
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I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
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