Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true. ~Akhil Sharma
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair. ~Viktor E. Frankl
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish 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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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~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 kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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