Three things see no end. A flower blighted ere it bloomed. A message that was wasted. And a journey that was doomed. ~Mercedes Lackey
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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I saw a photo of the Svoboda leader, Yatseniuk [Arseniy Yatseniuk, one of Batkivschyna leaders] and Klitschko [Vitali Klitschko, UDAR party leader] together demonstrating the unity of opposition. But I can't imagine that people like Klitschko, who position themselves as Europeans, and Yatseniuk, would willingly shake the hand of a person who in public states that Jews are the main threat to European civilization. Sometimes, while looking for and respecting opposition, we can't recognize it, ~Marek Siwiec
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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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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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Trust the tale, not the teller. ~David Knopfler
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. ~Sylvia Plath
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Only the crystal clear question yields a transparent answer. ~Zen Proverb
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