I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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It is very hard to concentrate when your stomach is rumbling. ~Shania Twain
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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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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond. ~Ken Follett
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like. ~Alexander Payne
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
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Even the smallest of stars shines in the darkness. ~Swedish Proverb
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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