A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world. ~Frederick Lenz
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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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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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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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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Three things see no end. A flower blighted ere it bloomed. A message that was wasted. And a journey that was doomed. ~Mercedes Lackey
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time; without UN approval and much broader support from the international community. ~Kofi Annan
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. ~Caleb Cushing
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
#quotes #mary-lou-williams #career

A promise is a debt. ~Proverb
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I'm living the dream. ~David Petraeus
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To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor. ~Paul A. Baran
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