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Life is like a grindstone, whether it grinds him down or polishes him depends on the stuff he is made of.
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Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard. ~Standing Bear ~
With time even a bear can learn to dance. Yiddish
A boy’s will is the wind’s will. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Kagwaci ka mwana wene nook kahoragia mwaki
It is always the potato of another family’s boy that extinguishes the fire
The proverb alludes to the custom of roasting potatoes in the embers of a dying fire.
Nobody calls himself rogue.
“There was a time I thought I couldn’t enjoy rock ‘n’ roll unless I had heroin in me”
Joe Perry of Aerosmith – 1989
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Kahlil Gibrain
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If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas. ― Steve Maraboli
“While spirituality provides an efficient and endless fuel for your mind and body, you must burn that fuel with human action towards your goals, dreams, and desires.”
― Steve Maraboli
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. Jules Reynard
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The old cat refuses to admit that the face in the looking-glass is her own.
“Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.”
Pandora Poikilos, Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out
“Scholars, theologians, and even poets have yet to be able to truly describe and touch upon the beauty, romance, and magic of a relationship built on 100% authenticity”
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Never be too precipitate in your decisions ; but previously to pronouncing them, maturely consider both sides of the question.
WHO KEEPS COMPANY WITH A WOLF LEARNS TO HOWL.
“The Antiquity of Proverbs: Fifty Familiar Proverbs and Folk Sayings with Annotations and Lists …”
“This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly – with a surging of his pulse and a frantic pounding in his head. He was about to gamble his life on that table, and the insanity of that risk filled him with a kind of awe.” Paul Auster, “The Music of Chance” (1990)
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foto – izzy foreal and William white aka billy james at raleigh 2010
THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY 