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I f you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.


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W hen a head is too big it cannot avoid punches.


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W hat an old man can see while seated a young man can not see standing.


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M ay he who comes to visit me never bring death to me, and when he does depart, may he never grow a hunch-back


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A ction speaks louder than the words.


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W hen you throw a stone at God, it lands right on top of your head


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T omorrow is pregnant and no-one knows what she will give birth to.


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K nowledge is not the main thing, but good deed is.


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A man, who knows the use of proverbs, reconciles difficulties.


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Ashanti of Ghana 

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O ne cannot run away from his behind.


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A fter a foolish deed comes remorse.


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T he fool speaks, the wise listens.


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H e, who learns, teaches.


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I t takes a whole village to raise a child.


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I f your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off your lips.


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I f your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is
better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be
thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off
and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than
that your whole body go into hell.


Christianity
Matthew 5.29-30 

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W hen the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat,
pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting; they come and go. Bear
them patiently, Arjuna. Those who are not affected by these changes, who
are the same in pleasure and pain, are truly wise and fit for immortality.
Assert your strength and realize this!...

The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How can it be
at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy? When you let
your mind follow the call of the senses, they carry away your better
judgement as storms drive a boat off its charted course on the sea.

Use all of your power to free the senses from attachment and aversion
alike, and live in the full wisdom of the Self.


Hinduism
Bhagavad Gita 2.14-15, 66-68 

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H e who excites himself by lustful thoughts will not be allowed to enter
the division of the Holy One.


Judaism
Nidda 13b 

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H e who delights in subduing evil thoughts, who meditates on the loathsome-
ness of the body, who is ever mindful--it is he who will make an end of
craving. He will sever Mara's bond.


Buddhism
Dhammapada 350 

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T he craving of a person addicted to careless living grows like a creeper.
He jumps from life to life like a fruit-loving monkey in the forest.
Whomsoever in this world this base clinging thirst overcomes, his sorrows
flourish like well-watered birana grass. Whoso in the world overcomes
this base unruly craving, from him sorrows fall away like water drops from
a lotus leaf. This I say to you: Dig up the root of craving like one in
quest of the birana's sweet root. Let not Mara crush you again and again
as a flood crushes a reed.


Buddhism
Dhammapada 334-37 

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W e live in accordance with our deep, driving desire. It is this desire at
the time of death that determines what our next life is to be. We will
come back to earth to work out the satisfaction of that desire.

But not for those who are free from desire; they are free because all
their desires have found fulfillment in the Self. They do not die like
the others; but realizing Brahman, they merge in Brahman. So it is said:

When all the desires that surge in the heart
Are renounced, the mortal becomes immortal.

When all the knots that strangle the heart
Are loosened, the mortal becomes immortal,
Here in this very life.


Hinduism
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4.4.6-7 

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F rom endearment springs grief, from endearment springs fear; for him who
is wholly free from endearment there is no grief, much less fear.

From affection springs grief, from affection springs fear; for him who is
wholly free from affection there is no grief, much less fear.

From attachment springs grief, from attachment springs fear; for him who
is wholly free from attachment there is no grief, much less fear.

From lust springs grief, from lust springs fear; for him who is wholly
free from lust there is no grief, much less fear.

From craving springs grief, from craving springs fear; for him who is
wholly free from craving there is no grief, much less fear.


Buddhism
Dhammapada 212-16 

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W hoever quenches the fire of desire through the holy Word,
Spontaneously is his illusion of duality banished.
Such is he in whose heart the Name dwells, by the Master's guidance.


Sikhism
Gauri Ashtpadi, M.1, p. 222 

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T hat man is disciplined and happy
who can prevail over the turmoil
That springs from desire and anger,
here on earth, before he leaves his body.


Hinduism
Bhagavad Gita 5.23 

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B eloved, I beseech you... to abstain from the passions of the flesh that
wage war against your soul.


Christianity
1 Peter 2.11 

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