Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck; and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee; or you can go out and become an entrepreneur. ~Al Michaels
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A dimple on the chin, the devil within. ~Gaelic Proverb
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education. ~Melanie Griffith
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. ~Max Eastman
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events. ~Lisa Ling
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Death is just life's next big adventure. ~J. K. Rowling
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If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin. ~Joseph Goebbels
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When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it. ~Kim Yuna
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