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Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms. ~Ikkyu Sojun



You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body. ~Kareem Abdul-Jabbar



There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them. ~Mignon McLaughlin



Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb



Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. ~Aristotle



Teach us to say: "I will arise." ~Richard Le Gallienne



Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity. ~James Thurber



When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. ~James Joyce



Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals. ~G.K. Chesterton



True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. ~Charles Caleb Colton



Sun spreads through the treetops like an epidemic. ~Dave Bonta, from The Morning Porch blog at www.morningporch.com/post/96792742/orange-tabby



Winter either bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Proverb



The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. ~Thomas Jefferson



Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~Henry Ward Beecher



On the other hand, the Bible contains much that is relevant today, like Noah taking forty days to find a place to park. ~Curtis McDougall



When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen -sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved. ~Pierre Loti



The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of disease. ~Edward Jenner



Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb