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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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. ~Sarah Michelle Gellar
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Love's in need of love today, don't delay; send yours in right away. ~Stevie Wonder
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"Feminist comedy," practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. ~Grace Slick
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish 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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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu 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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