You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. ~Proverb
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt no inclination to be alone and avoided it as far as possible; he didn't really want to become any better acquainted with himself. He knew that if he wanted to show his talents to best advantage, he needed to strike sparks off other people to fan the flames of warmth and exuberance in his heart. On his own he was frosty, no use to himself at all, like a match left lying in its box. ~Stefan Zweig
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ~Nguyen Cao Ky
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains. ~Hobart Brown
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work. ~Bill Murray
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German 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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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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In wintertime I like to wear flannel button down pyjamas, and in summer I prefer to wear, well; nothing. ~Phoebe Tonkin
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. ~Robert Orben
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