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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events. ~Ralph Marston
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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proverbiosA child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~Nancy Farmer
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy. ~Missy Franklin
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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I never really thought about becoming a professional musician. ~John Mayall
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity. ~Maya Angelou
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. ~Lillie Langtry
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same. ~Malcolm Forbes
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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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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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow. ~Henry Adams
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~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
#quotes #hiromu-arakawa #fullmetal-alchemist #struggle
If you can compete, you are going to compete. ~Earl Lloyd
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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