I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. ~Edward Hallowell
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. ~D. H. Lawrence
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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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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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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