The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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Movements are as eloquent as words. ~Isadora Duncan
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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. ~Jewish Proverb
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. ~Edward Snowden
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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The truest success is but the development of self. ~Charles Atlas
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit. ~Dorothy Thompson
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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