"A moving door hinge never corrodes. Flowing water……" — Ming-Dao Deng
"A moving door hinge never corrodes. Flowing water never grows stagnant."
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33 Quotes by Ming-Dao Deng
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Some Warriors look fierce, but are mild. Some seem timid, but are vicious. Look beyond appearances; position yourself for the…
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Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing.
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Give back what you have learned. Share your experience.
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A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting…
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When it is time to part, then it is time to part. There should be no regrets. The beauty of…
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A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves…
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Knowing the steps to create living growth: that is art.
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The sages say that life is illusion, but does that change its poignancy?
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Let us be sad; it is feeling that makes us human.
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Did you measure to attain your height? Did you use geometry to radiate your limb? Did you lament storm-torn branches?…
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Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation.…
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An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole…
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
— B. C. Forbes
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Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and…
— Mark Twain
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Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a…
— Blaise Cendrars
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Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic…
— Bill Keller
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The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.
— Murray Bookchin
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Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks…
— Wilder Penfield
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Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water.…
— Margaret Visser
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Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.
— Owen Feltham
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That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.
— Eric Hoffer
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Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after…
— Theodor Adorno
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We should leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth, and corrodes mankind’s belief that…
— Ai Weiwei
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The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves…
— James Risen
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