I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God. ~Kelly Rowland
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. ~Benjamin Franklin
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed. ~Kent McCord
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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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"Perfect justice rules the world" for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. ~Iamblichus
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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I love to work, so give me what you have got. I will play a tree, if you want me to. If you want fruit on it, then pay me more money. Otherwise, I just love to work. ~Danny Trejo
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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