A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen 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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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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There is no place like home. ~English Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. ~Azerbaijani 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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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen 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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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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