At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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Movements are as eloquent as words. ~Isadora Duncan
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives. ~James Bovard
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On reflection, Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, this wasn't one of your better plans. ~Chris Wooding
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I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to. ~Chic Murray
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere. ~Ryan White
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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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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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish 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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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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