Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish 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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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score. ~Frank Leahy
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The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up. ~Susan Cain
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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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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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
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I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. ~Ridley Scott
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~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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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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