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Hate flows from a broken spirit. ↗

— Kevin Walker

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Fools, their wisdom weak, are their own enemies as they go through life, doing evil that bears bitter fruit. ↗

— Juan Mascaró

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One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness. ↗

— Gil Fronsdal

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Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering on. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

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It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats. ↗

— Adam Levin

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I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we have to be born in the first place, and only so we can have our poor gentle flesh laid out to such impossible horrors as huge mountains and rock and empty space,' and with horror I remembered the famous Zen saying, 'When you get to the top of a mountain, keep climbing.' The saying made my hair stand on end; it had been such cute poetry sitting on Alvah's straw mats. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

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Money isn't everything, but it's right up there with oxygen. ↗

— Rita Davenport

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If a man fights with truth, in time, he will be victorious. If he fights with lies, after he is exposed; in time, he will be left alone. ↗

— Tonny K. Brown

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Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life? ↗

— Andrew Sean Greer

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Longevity-and sanity. Eccentric old ladies on Harleys I can deal with. ↗