Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts. ~Soren Kierkegaard
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I try to work every day, even when I am not motivated. Ritual is very important to me. ~Mel Ramos
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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You are playing worse and worse every day and right now you are playing like it's next month. ~Herb Brooks
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I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling. ~Hugh Jackman
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose. ~Warren Christopher
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all. ~Alice Eve
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth. ~Gautama Buddha
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Love gives life within. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish Proverb
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English Proverb
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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