Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. ~David Swing
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for, someone to whom you want to write another heartfelt, slanted, misspelled thank you note, do it. Tell them they made you feel loved and supported. That they made you feel like you belonged somewhere and that you were not a freak. Tell them all of that. Tell them today. ~Lisa Jakub
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To be a team, you must be a family. ~Don Meyer
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My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events. ~Lisa Ling
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There is a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary. ~Trevor Dunn
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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If you're "stuck" right now, you're probably into fear. Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is your own mind. ~Neale Donald Walsch
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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