"Life and death are one thread...." - Quote by Lao Tzu

“Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful.”

“Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves.”

“When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside the city.”

“Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself”

“Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.”

“It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.”

“I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea.”

“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.”

“Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.' And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten-- since, in either case, other men will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably.”