A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~French Proverb
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me. ~Moon Unit Zappa
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ~William Griffith Wilson
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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
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Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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You must remember the value that you add to others and not just what others have added to you. That's how we build self-worth, which, in my opinion, is just as important as net worth. ~Suze Orman
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships. ~Tom Robbins
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish Proverb
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