The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
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There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. ~Harry Blamires
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up, it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together. ~Michael Light
#quotes #michael-light #thinking

Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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If the stock goes down we want to buy more. ~Walter Schloss
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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