Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen 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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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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I just can't sleep tonight knowing that things ain't right. ~Justin Bieber
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to. ~Lou Brock
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic 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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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not do what you will have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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