Sorrow is brief but joy is endless ~Friedrich Schiller
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Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~Proverb
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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Talk to me when I am bored. Be with me when I am sad. Hug me when i cry. Care for me when I am sick. Don't ever cry for me when I die! Just treasure me when I am alive.
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund "Obamacare." They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the "Obamacare" program. ~Paul Ryan
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~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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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. ~Gene Tunney
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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die." Black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee." ~Spanish Proverb
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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