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There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just let go of your "demand" on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You are arguing with "what is." Your demands keep you chained to the "dream state" of the conditioned mind. The desire to "control" is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake. ~Adyashanti
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Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect! ~Jonathan Richman
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The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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proverbiosIf somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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It is true that advertising often gives information and is valuable for doing so, but some forms of advertising give precious little information, and even that little is wrong. ~Randal Marlin
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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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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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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I cancel going out if my hair doesn't look good. ~Brad Goreski
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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I'm not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach. ~Marc Guggenheim
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. ~Louis Pasteur
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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