Happiness Quote by Michael Finkel Download Open image ““Those with less become content,” says the Tao, “those with more become confused.” The”” — Michael Finkel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happiness
“it is really impossible to appreciate what is meant by the Tao without becoming, in a rather special sense, stupid.” — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“Tao Te Ching says that it is only through retreat rather than pursuit, through inaction rather than action, that we acquire wisdom. “Those with… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“There's no escaping the Taoist adage, "Those who speak do not know, those who know do not speak.” — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“The Tao is hidden, and has no name; but it is the Tao which is skilful at imparting (to all things what they need)… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Tao is (like) the emptiness of a vessel; and in our employment of it we must be on our guard against all fulness.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“When men lost their understanding of the Tao, intelligence came along, bringing hypocrisy with it.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally. — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“He has seen the bottomless nonsense of our world and has decided, like most of us, to simply try to tolerate it. He appears… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
America might be the land of second chances, but it ain't the land of third chances. — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“The American essayist William Deresiewicz wrote that “no real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.” — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“The first great literary work about solitude, the Tao Te Ching, was written in ancient China, likely in the sixth century B.C., by a… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
There have always been hermits: people who want to get away from other humans. Literally, some of the first extant books and poems found… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
I think many people have this sense that something about modern society - the screens, the noise, the traffic, the constant busyness - has… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
I'd lied many times: to bolster my credentials, to elicit sympathy, to make myself appear less ordinary. — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“He never bothered listening to sports; the bored him, every one of them.” — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation.... There are going to be priorities and dimensions of… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
“WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE. WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS… — MARVIN J. ASHTON Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
Sometimes we wish for the feel but we never understand that we have to give a lot to get the feel ! — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content,… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image