A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid. ~Viggo Mortensen
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. ~Junior Seau
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. ~Robert Smithson
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~English Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well; and just have fun on stage. ~Joan Armatrading
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb
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