The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up, it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together. ~Michael Light
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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow. ~English Proverb
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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Good things come to those who wait. ~English Proverb
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese 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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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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