If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up, it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together. ~Michael Light
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish 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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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me. ~Chuck Mangione
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is. ~Stephen Chbosky
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Life sucks order from a sea of disorder. ~James Gleick
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