There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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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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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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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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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ~William Griffith Wilson
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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