That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. ~Rumi
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You are what you "tweet".~ Internet Proverb
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is. ~Stephen Chbosky
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The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that, women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves. ~Louise Otto-Peters
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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Only the crystal clear question yields a transparent answer. ~Zen Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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