Fixation is the way to death, fluidity is the way to life.
Remember always that a wise man walks with his head bowed; humble like the dust.
Those who lack wisdom are convinced that they are truly awake;
they think they understand what is happening;
they think that the king is really the king,
and the servants are really servants.
Look at misfortune the same way you look at success. Don't panic! Do your best and forget the consequences. (Walt Alston)
Self-discovery is not possible if you are not prepared to be genuine.
No.
Try not.
Do or do not.
There is no try.
(Yoda)
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. (Gandhi)
The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
It grasps nothing; it refuses nothing.
It receives, but it does not keep.
(Chuang Tzu)
To take all you want is never as good as to stop when you should. (Lao Tzu)
Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them. (Amy Vanderbilt)
Life is mostly guesswork. You will usually guess more or less right, and sometimes you’ll guess wrong. When you guess wrong, don’t react – love your mistakes, and don’t beat yourself up. (Stuart Wilde)
Fine horses can travel a hundred miles a day, but they cannot catch mice like terriers or weasels. All creatures have gifts of their own.
My fear is my own concern.
(T E Lawrence)
The nail that sticks up is hammered down.
(Japanese proverb)
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them. (Aristotle)
When there's a motive for search, the end of the search is already known. Being unhappy, you seek happiness; therefore you have ceased to seek, for you think you already know what happiness is.
Trying to be all things to all people is a reliable formula for failure.
Taking something and making it your own makes a big difference. It's not just copying something, it's breaking it down, feeling what's going on and experiencing it for yourself.
Desires do not hurt the mind as much as opinions do. The senses do not hinder enlightenment as much as the intellect does.(Huanchu Daoren)
Love is what you give without any thought to the Self.
There is a time for putting together.
And another time for taking apart.
He who understands this course of events
Takes each new state in its proper time
With neither sorrow nor joy.
The ancients said: "The hanged man cannot cut himself down."
The voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.(Marcel Proust)
Silence is the ornament of the learned and the clock of the ignorant.
Through pride, we are ever deceiving ourselves.
No revolution in outer things is possible without prior revolution in one's inner way of being.
Trying to understand is like straining to see through muddy water. Be still, and allow the mud to settle.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. (Charles Darwin)