The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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I love zoo sanctuaries. ~Nancy Travis
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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I am a sensitive, sensitive person. Overly sensitive. Extremely emotional. ~Mary Lambert
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~English Proverb
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ~Imogen Cunningham
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen 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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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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The healing of ourselves as healers has to take place first. Bringing ourselves to wholeness, we become more sensitive to other people. In the change of consciousness that happens within us, we bring about change of consciousness in those around us and in the planet itself. ~Marion Woodman
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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