"A man living without conflicts, as if..." - Quote by Confucius
A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all.
More by Confucius
“There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.”
“Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man?”
“Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?”
More on Life
“It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.”
“I can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It's what I love the most.”
“When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.”
More on Conflict
“Great anger and violence can never build a nation.”
“Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace.”
“In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.”