There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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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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Fame is a magnifying glass. ~English Proverb
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Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day. ~Stephen King
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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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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She really mellowed me out that way. We both definitely grew with each other and with the whole experience. ~Brian Austin Green
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question. ~Bill Keller
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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I think that the best rock n' roll is about the spirit of being young, the feeling of being 16 and getting crazy with your friends and going out to a show and just that whole feeling. ~Sebastian Bach
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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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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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It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. ~Irvine Welsh
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You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid. ~Viggo Mortensen
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit. ~Dorothy Thompson
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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