I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. ~Harvey Mackay
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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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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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person. ~Alana Stewart
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Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals. ~Alphonsus Rodriguez
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The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one. ~James Robertson
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ~Paul Michael Glaser
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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You are only as old as you feel. ~English Proverb
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