You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying. Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help ~Donald Miller
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church. ~Johnny Hunt
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish Proverb
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian 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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Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Sam Shoemaker
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Whatever you choose you will repent because the other will remain and haunt you. If one needs absolute freedom then choiceless awareness is the only thing. ~Rajneesh
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race. ~Kirk Hammett
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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