One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
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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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I want to take back at least half of the "I love you"s, because I didn't mean them as much as the other ones. ~David Levithan
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Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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You can almost taste the pressure now. ~Vin Scully
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
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Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid? ~Lynda Barry
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for. ~Dash Mihok
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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