Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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Experience this moment to its fullest. ~Zen Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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Only the crystal clear question yields a transparent answer. ~Zen Proverb
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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The maxims of men disclose their hearts. ~French Proverb
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Earth is dearer than gold. ~English Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. ~Pearl S. Buck
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Honesty is the best privacy policy. ~Internet Proverb
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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