Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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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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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It is so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything. ~Nicole Miller
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German 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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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Only the crystal clear question yields a transparent answer. ~Zen Proverb
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Life sucks order from a sea of disorder. ~James Gleick
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One sister for sale, one sister for sale, one crying and spying young sister for sale. I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding. Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isn't, there isn't there any one person who will buy this sister for sale. This crying spying old young sister for sale. ~Shel Silverstein
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene. ~Nicolas Cage
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A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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