Laozi (Lao Tzu)
(c.600 BCE - c.501 BCE)
“Maybe Laozi has lived one hundred and fifty years, some say more than two hundred years.” Since the ancient Chinese believed that superior men could live very long, it is natural that the Daoists credited their master with an uncommon longevity
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(c.600 BCE - c.501 BCE)
“Maybe Laozi has lived one hundred and fifty years, some say more than two hundred years.” Since the ancient Chinese believed that superior men could live very long, it is natural that the Daoists credited their master with an uncommon longevity
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“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
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“Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.”
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.”
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“Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.”
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.”
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“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
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“Be content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.”
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.”
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
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“If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.”
“Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.”
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“Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.”
“What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.”
“Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.”
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Winston Churchill
(November 30, 1874 - January 24, 1965)
The young Churchill passed an unhappy and sadly neglected childhood, redeemed only by the affection of Mrs. Everest, his devoted nurse. At Harrow his conspicuously poor academic record seemingly justified his father’s decision to enter him into an army career. It was only at the third attempt that he managed to pass the entrance examination to the Royal Military College, now Academy, Sandhurst, but, once there, he applied himself seriously and passed out (graduated) 20th in a class of 130.
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(November 30, 1874 - January 24, 1965)
The young Churchill passed an unhappy and sadly neglected childhood, redeemed only by the affection of Mrs. Everest, his devoted nurse. At Harrow his conspicuously poor academic record seemingly justified his father’s decision to enter him into an army career. It was only at the third attempt that he managed to pass the entrance examination to the Royal Military College, now Academy, Sandhurst, but, once there, he applied himself seriously and passed out (graduated) 20th in a class of 130.
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
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“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”