A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese 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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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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If you're "stuck" right now, you're probably into fear. Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is your own mind. ~Neale Donald Walsch
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. ~John Burroughs
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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Will is stronger than fact; it can mold and overcome fact. ~H. G. Wells
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I am fortunate in that I am a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ~Paul Kane
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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