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I wasn’t as smart then as I am now. But who ever is? (Tina Turner) |
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know. (James Baldwin) |
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Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. (Tom Wilson) |
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I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them. (Boris Pasternak) |
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We write to taste life twice. (Anaïs Nin) |
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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. (Sophia Loren) |
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If the whole world depends on today’s youth, I can’t see the world lasting another 100 years. (Socrates) |
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Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you. (Charlie Parker) |
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Faith is a state of openness or trust. To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. (Alan Watts) |
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Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is. (Jimmy Carter) |
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When I was forty and looking at sixty, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But sixty-two feels like a week and a half away from eighty. I must now get on with those things I always talked about doing but put off. (Harry Belafonte) |
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Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest. (Mark Twain) |
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. (T. S. Eliot) |
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You may be drawing a circle for the thousandth time, but maybe it’s a slightly better circle. (Lou Reed) |
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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. (Anaïs Nin) |
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It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play. (Dizzy Gillespie) |
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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul. (Simone Weil) |
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There is no end to the opening up that is possible for a human being. (Charlotte Joko Beck) |
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Everything is burning. The eye is burning and visible sights are burning. The ears and the sounds they hear are burning, the nose, the tongue, the body, the mind. With what fires are they burning? With the fires of greed, of hate, of ignorance, burning with anxiety, jealousy, loss, decay and grief. Considering this suffering, a follower of the way becomes weary of the fires, weary of greed and hate that fuel the grasping at sights, sounds, smells, tastes, body or mind. Being weary, one divests oneself of this grasping and by the absence of this grasping one becomes free. (Buddha) |
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I never like anyone till I’ve seen him at his worst. (Ethel M. Dell) |
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. (Margaret Mead) |
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Behind each jewel are three thousand sweating horses. (Zen saying) |
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet. (Franz Kafka) |
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility. (Simone Weil) |
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Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. (Charles Dudley Warner) |
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To a worm, the whole world is horseradish. (Yiddish proverb) |
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Traveler, there is no path. You make your path as you travel. (Antonio Machado) |
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Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. (Stephen Wright) |
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You are lost the instant you know what the result will be. (Juan Gris) |
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He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise. (Lao-Tzu) |
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You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizons. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about—the more you have left when anything happens. (Ethel Barrymore) |
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We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are. (Anaïs Nin) |
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If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life. (Cher) |
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People yearn for love. . . . It is similar to a dog’s relationship to the car. First, they cry because they want to get in the car. Then, as soon as the car starts to move, they cry because they want to get out. And of course, as soon as they get out, all they want to do is get back in as soon as possible. Good thing for us, dogs aren’t especially musical, or just imagine all the annoying songs there’d be about cars. (Merrill Markoe) |
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When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail. (Abraham Maslow) |
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk everything, you risk even more. (Erica Jong) |
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What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. (Friedrich Nietzsche) |
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with. (Oprah Winfrey) |
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Not that anyone cares, but there’s a right and wrong way to clean a house. (Joan Crawford) |
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The tragedy of life is not in the fact of death. The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives—the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response; the death of awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in oneself. . . . No man need fear death: he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power—the power of his free will to give his life for others. (Albert Schweitzer) |
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. (Bertrand Russell) |
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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. (Richard Bach) |
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A gossip is someone who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself. (Lisa Kirk) |
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Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven’t time, and to see takes time—like to have a friend takes time. (Georgia O’Keeffe) |
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Failure is impossible. (Susan B. Anthony) |
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The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old. (Jean Kerr) |
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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. If you say “No! I don’t want it right now,” that’s when you’ll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke. (Lynda Barry) |
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Only the wounded physician heals. (Asian saying) |
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The future is made of the same stuff as the present. (Simone Weil) |
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What you can’t get out of, get into wholeheartedly. (Mignon McLaughlin) |
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Never judge someone by who he’s in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. (Cynthia Heimel) |
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Love has the temperance which asks for nothing which is not already [in] the moment granted. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
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The difficulties increase the closer we approach the goal. (Goethe) |
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One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after. (George Herbert) |
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Small sorrows speak; great ones are silent. (Latin saying) |
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. (Upton Sinclair) |
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Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers. (Mignon McLaughlin) |
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. (Lewis Carroll) |
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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are so confident while the intelligent are full of doubt. (Bertrand Russell) |
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Computers are useless—they can only give you answers. (Pablo Picasso) |
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The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. (Rene Magritte) |
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It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you don't stop. (Confucius) |
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When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered. (Alice Caldwell Rice) |
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Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. (David Lloyd George) |
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It's a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young, just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old. (Mark Twain) |
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The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you. (Katharine Whitehorn) |
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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked throughout the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. (Viktor Frankl) |
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Faith perceives Truth sooner than Experience can. (Kahlil Gibran) |
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Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering. (Joan Powers) |
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On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone. (Janis Joplin) |
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What passes as love between man and woman can be many things. Promiscuity, possessiveness, misuse of sex for purposes of power, are all highly disintegrative. . . But love between man and woman that is the relationship in depth, the "marriage of true minds," is a drawing to wholeness. Each calls up in the other the deep center, the seed of the Self. It is by such love that the "real being" grows and lives. (P.W. Martin) |
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A bad memory is the mother of invention. (Gerald Brenan) |
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. (Martin Luther King, Jr.) |
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If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation. (Anaïs Nin) |
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt) |
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness. (John Cage) |
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Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. (Henry Miller) |
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We work to become, not to acquire. (Elbert Hubbard) |
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I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. (Billy Crystal as Harry Burns, When Harry Met Sally) |
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Life is short. Live it up. (Nikita Khrushchev) |
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When you kiss me, Daddy, I stay kissed. (Bessie Smith) |
