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“A thought can prompt. Words can stir. But it takes action to attain a dream.”
― Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
― Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him;”
― The Ugly Duckling
― The Ugly Duckling
“Rushing into action, you fail.
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion,
you ruin what was almost ripe.
Therefore the Master takes action
by letting things take their course.
He remains as calm at the end
as at the beginning.
He has nothing,
thus has nothing to lose.
What he desires is non-desire;
what he learns is to unlearn.
He simply reminds people
of who they have always been.
He cares about nothing but the Tao.
Thus he can care for all things.”
― Tao Te Ching
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion,
you ruin what was almost ripe.
Therefore the Master takes action
by letting things take their course.
He remains as calm at the end
as at the beginning.
He has nothing,
thus has nothing to lose.
What he desires is non-desire;
what he learns is to unlearn.
He simply reminds people
of who they have always been.
He cares about nothing but the Tao.
Thus he can care for all things.”
― Tao Te Ching
“I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling.”
― The Ugly Duckling
― The Ugly Duckling
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