Beauty-Harmony

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Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet

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Albert Einstein

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When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think its only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for you a minute you think its two hours. That's relativity

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Albert Einstein

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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives

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Albert Schweitzer

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We are all islands - in a common sea

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Today’s gratitude buys tomorrow’s happiness.

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Anonymous

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Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.

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Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything

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Arabian Proverb

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How inappropriate to call this planet earth when it is clearly ocean.

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Arthur C. Clarke

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A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even if he lives in paradise

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Baha'u'llah

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Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions

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Benjamin Disraeli

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A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do

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Bob Dylan

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I dont myself believe that…we have the right to kill animals. I know I would not have the right to kill you, however painlessly, just because I liked your flavourm and I am not in a position to judge that your life is worth more to you than an animals to it

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Brigid Brophy

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Nothing is possible without love…For love puts one in a mood to risk everything

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Carl Jung

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Hunger is the best sauce.

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Cervantes

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about

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Charles Kingsley

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Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. (Sow a thought and you reap an act)

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Charles Reade

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You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well

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Chuang Tse

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The firm, the enduring, the simple and the modest are close to virtue.

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Confucius

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Mens natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.

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Confucius

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The superior man is modest in his words but excels in his actions.

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Confucius

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In spite of illness, in spite even of the arch-enemy, sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiousity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

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Edith Wharton

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Spring has come when you can put your foot on three daisies

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English proverb

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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads

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Erica Jong

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The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

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Euripides

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God Almighty first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures

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Francis Bacon

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Swallow your pride occasionally. Its not fattening

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Frank Tyger

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Animals are my friends…and I dont eat my friends

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George Bernard Shaw

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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognised by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy

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George Bernard Shaw

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Our lives are frittered away by detail…Simplify, simplify

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Henry David Thoreau

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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

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Henry David Thoreau

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I'll make myself rich by making my wants few

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Henry David Thoreau

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Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise

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Henry Mitchell

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A Psalm for life (poem)...Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait."

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. Seize the day; put no trust in the future.

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Horace

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If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants (paraphrasing Bernard of Chartres, French philosopher, 1130)

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Isaac Newton

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That which doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.

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Italian proverb

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Sleep is sweet to the labouring man

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John Bunyon

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Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

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John Ruskin

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Follow your bliss

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Joseph Campbell

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Whoever is capable of knowing when they have had enough will always be satisfied

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Lao Tzu

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Der Mensch ist, was er isst (Man is what he eats)

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Ludwig Feuerbach

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The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trail-blazers in human, scientific, and religious freedom have always been in a minority

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Martin Luther King

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There must be more to life than having everything!

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Maurice Sendak

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It could be said of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of flowers of other men’s flowers, providing of my own only the string that ties the together.

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Montaigne

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We do not inherit the earth from our fathers; we borrow it from our children

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Native American saying

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Take a rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

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Ovid

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You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair

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Persian proverb

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A man is what he thinks about all day long

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What is success? To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty and find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the centre of it all

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Robert M. Pirsig

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We need nature more than nature needs us

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Sadruddin Aga Khan

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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time

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Seneca (the Younger)

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I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have for the arts, books, etc. There is a sweet, fine quality in life that has nothing to do with this, and more and more I find myself valuing myself with those people

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Sherwood Anderson

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Beware the barrenness of a busy life

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Socrates

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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

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St. Augustine of Hippo

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Live passionately, even it kills you, because something is going to kill you anyway

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T. E. Lawrence

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A joyful and pleasant thing it is to be thankful.

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The Bible

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Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

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Unknown

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Live in the moment - ‘Yesterday is ashes, tomorrow is wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly.

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Unknown

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Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a pauper.

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Unknown

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Idle people have the least leisure.

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Unknown

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Moderation in all things / nothing in excess.

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Unknown

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Prevention is better than cure.

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Unknown

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The beginning of health is sleep.

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Unknown

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Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.

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Unknown

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Your food is your medicine.

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Unknown

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If you are looking for a big opportunity, find a big problem

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Unknown

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden

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W. Beran Wolfe

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Variety’s the very spice of life, that gives all its flavour.

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William Cowper

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It is perhaps lifes greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining ones wits, ones sense of humour, ones health, and ones charm.

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Yehudi Menuhin