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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Activity breeds prosperity. ~Kurdish Proverb
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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In wintertime I like to wear flannel button down pyjamas, and in summer I prefer to wear, well; nothing. ~Phoebe Tonkin
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary. ~Bernard Hopkins
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A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. ~Robert Orben
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Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly. ~John Spence
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I want to take back at least half of the "I love you"s, because I didn't mean them as much as the other ones. ~David Levithan
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills. I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships. ~Britt Ekland
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish 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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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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