75 Native American Proverbs / Page 3
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No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.42.
Nobody gets out of the bed to sleep on the floor.43.
Not every sweet root gives birth to sweet grass.44.
One foe is too many and a hundred friends are too few.45.
One shower doesn't make a flood.46.
Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your Mother and all things as your Brothers and Sisters.47.
Remember that your children are not your own, but are lent to you by the Creator.48.
Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it.49.
Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.50.
The center of the universe is everywhere.51.
The devil goes away and heaven comes to stay.52.
The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.53.
The lazy ox drinks dirty water.54.
The ones that matter the most are the children.55.
The power of the world always works in circles.56.
The river is my brother for it carries my canoe.57.
The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.58.
The words of God are not like the oak leaf which dies and falls to the earth, but like the pine tree which stays green forever.59.
There is no death, only a change of worlds.60.
There is nothing so eloquent as the rattlesnake's tail.