The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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Experience this moment to its fullest. ~Zen Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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Activity breeds prosperity. ~Kurdish Proverb
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fame is a magnifying glass. ~English Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~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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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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