"I let go of all desire for..." - Quote by Lao Tzu
I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.
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“A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.”
“A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step and if that step is the right step, it becomes the last step.”
“A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.”
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“Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.”
“I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.”
“We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.”
More on Common Good
“One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.”
“That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.”
“Let every action aim solely at the common good.”