"Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long...." - Quote by Lao Tzu
Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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“He who stands on tiptoedoesn't stand firm.He who rushes aheaddoesn't go far.He who tries to shinedims his own light.He who defines himselfcan't know who he really is.He who has power over otherscan't empower himself.He who clings to his workwill create nothing that endures.”
“The highest benevolence acts without purpose.”
“Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.”
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“The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?”
“The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.”
“Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.”