As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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I don't know where life's going, but soon it will be gone. I hope the wind that's blowing helps me carry on. Turn on the radio, baby listen to my song. Turn on the night light baby, I'm gone. ~Marc Cohn
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
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Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true. ~Rick Riordan
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Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. ~Robert Edison Fulton
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. ~Leigh Bardugo
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all. ~Nancy Sinatra
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Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. ~Jose Marti
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ~Ronald Reagan
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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If I die, I forgive you. If I live, we shall see. ~Spanish Proverb
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained, this is free. ~Veronica Roth
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Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market, I have so many vintage pieces from there it is unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules. ~Kaya Scodelario
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Plaid is always cute and always will be. But only on the bottom. At the top, it makes you look like a farmer. ~Jen Lancaster
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home. ~Harold B. Lee
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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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