How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships. ~Tom Robbins
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ~Edith Wharton
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LIFE equals Live In Full Effect! ~Joseph Simmons
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be. ~Anna Kendrick
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ~Charles Churchill
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it. ~Kim Yuna
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~Gaston Bachelard
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~English Proverb
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion. ~Eric Maisel
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Rose is famous for grace, advocate is famous for case, horse is famous for race. But you are famous for sweetness on your face.
#message #cute

Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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