The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day. ~Stephen King
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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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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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company. ~Courtney B. Vance
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When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder. ~Julie Newmar
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true. ~Akhil Sharma
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The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws. ~Ernest Holmes
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian 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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If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for, someone to whom you want to write another heartfelt, slanted, misspelled thank you note, do it. Tell them they made you feel loved and supported. That they made you feel like you belonged somewhere and that you were not a freak. Tell them all of that. Tell them today. ~Lisa Jakub
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary. ~Karl Lagerfeld
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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