Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. ~Sarah Michelle Gellar
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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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People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace. ~M. Scott Peck
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
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Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. ~Jan Karon
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean 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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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ~David Suzuki
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. ~Junior Seau
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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