If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor. ~Jennifer James
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. ~Stephen Rea
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Only the crystal clear question yields a transparent answer. ~Zen Proverb
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people. ~Robert Frost
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn. ~Patricia Marx
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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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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese 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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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first. ~Tom Hiddleston
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Earth to Democrats; displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move. ~Monica Crowley
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