There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just let go of your "demand" on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You are arguing with "what is." Your demands keep you chained to the "dream state" of the conditioned mind. The desire to "control" is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake. ~Adyashanti
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~French Proverb
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb
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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English Proverb
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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