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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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other. ~Jacqueline Novogratz
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. ~Pearl S. Buck
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We can increase the frequency of guiding coincidences by uplifting every person that comes into our lives. Care must be taken not to lose our inner connection in romantic relationships. ~James Redfield
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time; without UN approval and much broader support from the international community. ~Kofi Annan
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay. ~William Cowper
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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