I am too pure for you or anyone. ~Sylvia Plath
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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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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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Have you forgotten God? Even if you have, He has not forgotten you. ~Moses
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. ~William Arthur Ward
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
#proverbs #hindu-proverbs #self #competition

Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after. ~Taylor Swift
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Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change. ~Mitch Kapor
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