There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese 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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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb
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Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. ~Azerbaijani Proverb
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare Mel Gibson challenge the public by producing a film that spurs public discussion, that pushes the envelope, that takes an old story to a new level. How dare Mel Gibson follow his own passion as a filmmaker. How dare he make $20 million on the opening day box office! ~Laura Ingraham
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