I have noticed that people tend to stop maturing when they start self-medicating. Everyone has very tough seasons of life, but by persevering through them we have an opportunity to mature and grow as people. Those who self-medicate, often thwart maturity as they escape the tough seasons of life rather than face them. ~Mark Driscoll
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Remember the street car cannot turn out. ~Charles Melville Hays
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You're a product just as much. A product of a product. The people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. The minister in your church, another product. ~Chuck Palahniuk
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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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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian 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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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school. ~Valentino Garavani
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~Phyllis Diller
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If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. ~Henry David Thoreau
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Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave. ~Kool Moe Dee
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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Never underestimate the power of wide-grip pull-ups to develop width and size. ~Ronnie Coleman
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Truth is time's daughter. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not look for evil. Look for the goodness of God all around you. As you look for signs of His presence, many more opportunities will occur for you to bless people and share God's true nature. ~Graham Cooke
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I stuck my tongue out at him because I was feeling exceptional mature. ~Janet Evanovich
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I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I would bring things to class that I had cooked at home. ~Giada De Laurentiis
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness. ~Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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