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- Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all…
- Gently eliminating all obstacles to his own understanding, he constantly maintains his unconditional sincerity. His humility, perseverance, and adaptability evoke the response of the universe…
- It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform…
- One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
- The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle with it you…
- All things issue from it; all things return to it. To find the origin, trace back the manifestations. When you recognize the children and find…
- The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- There is a time to go ahead and a time to stay behind. There is a time to breathe easy and time to breathe hard.…
- Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.
- He (the sage) wants all things to follow their own nature, but dares not act.
- The sage has no concern for himself, but makes the concerns of others his own.
- People turn their eyes and ears to him (the sage), and the sage cares for them like his own children.
- How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers…
- When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft…
- Accept disgrace willingly... Accept being unimportant... Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own…
- First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.
- Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand…
- The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like…
- My own words are not the medicine, but a prescription; not the destination, but a map to help you reach it. When you get there,…
- Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects…
- Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things?
- Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.
- The ancient Masters didn't try to educate the people, but kindly taught them to not-know. When they think that they know the answers, people are…
- Act without doing; work without effort. Think of the small as large and the few as many. Confront the difficult while it is still easy;…
- The Master has no mind of her own. She works with the mind of the people. She is good to people who are good. She…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov