Tao Te Ching
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| Sage | Source | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| (not set) | There was never a time when you and I and all the kings gathered here have not existed and nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. | |
| (not set) | A seed that sprouts at the foot of its parent tree remains stunted until it is transplanted… Every human being, when the time comes, has to depart to seek his fulfillment in his own way. | |
| (not set) | Do not do to others what would cause pain if done to you. | |
| (not set) | Hell has three gates: lust, anger and greed. | |
| (not set) | Ravana all your wealth is wasted, what's the use of being rich if you won't spend your gold to do good for other people? | |
| (not set) | Practice, cheer up, and think big—but don't ignore the details! | |
| (not set) | Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is. | |
| (not set) | The noblest functions of the human soul begin with reflecting on art and meditating on things of beauty. Rather than fixating on fame, fortune, pleasure, and power; it waits for the revelations of truth. | |
| (not set) | Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again. | |
| (not set) | It's delightful to contemplate a society where art is more respected than wealth; but, art can only be the flower that grows out of wealth. It cannot be wealth's substitute. The Medici came before Michelangelo | |
| (not set) | Our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. | |
| (not set) | Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity. | |
| (not set) | Diamond Sutra | Think this way about our fleeting world: a star at dawn, a bubble in a stream; a flash of lightening in a summer cloud; a flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream. |
| (not set) | Bhagavata Purana | Learn to look with an equal eye upon all beings, seeing the one Self in all. |
| A.A. Milne | Waiting At The Window | These are my two drops of rain |
| A.A. Milne | Waiting At The Window | “The things that make me different are the things that make me.” |
| A.A. Milne | War With Honour | The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. |
| A.A. Milne | War With Honour | War is something of man’s own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there. |
| A.A. Milne | Winnie the Pooh | “Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.” |
| A.A. Milne | Winnie the Pooh | “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” |