"The small is easy to scatter...." - Quote by Lao Tzu
The small is easy to scatter.
More by Lao Tzu
More on Vulnerability
“It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.”
“When I was in boy scouts, I slipped on the ice and hurt my ankle. A little old lady had to help me across the street.”
“Creativity requires the willingness to look stupid.”
More on Fragility
“In the garden there was nothing which was not quite like themselves - nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them - the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs. If there had been one person in that garden who had not known through all his or her innermost being that if an Egg were taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an end... there could have been no happiness even in that golden springtime air.”
“Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world.Variant: Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.”
“if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.”