Inspirational Quotes by Zhiming Yuan

“el sabio es recto pero no tajante, es anguloso pero no hiriente, es firme pero no insolente, es iluminado pero no encandila.”

“O sucesso e a desgraça vêm sempre acompanhados pelo medo.”

“en tanto a los desastres, ninguno es mayor que no saber cuando se tiene lo suficiente; en tanto a los defectos, ninguno trae más pena que ser insaciable.”

“Hold your ground and you will last long. Die without perishing and your life will endure.”

“We tend to expect great things from “seeing the world” and “getting experience.” A Roman poet remarked that travelers change their sky but not their soul. Other poets, untraveled and inexperienced, Emily Brontë and Emily Dickinson, prove Lao Tzu’s point: it’s the inner eye that really sees the world.”

“Si quieres empequeñecer una cosa, procura que antes se dilate. Si quieres debilitar algo, procura que cobre fuerza primero. Antes de aniquilar algo, espera a que florezca plenamente. Si quieres privar de algo a alguien, primero habrás de darle lo bastante. Esto es percibir la naturaleza de las cosas. Lo flexible vence a lo rígido. Lo débil triunfa sobre lo fuerte. El pez no debe abandonar las aguas profundas. Las armas del reino no deben ser exhibidas.”

“When a ruler practices restraint, everything will be in peace.”

“The wise have no mind of their own, finding it in the minds of ordinary people.”

“Seeing your own smallness is called insight Honoring your own tenderness is called strength”

“The Taoist Master Lie (Lieh-tzu) had written: There was a man who lived by the sea and loved seagulls. Every day at dawn when he went down to the sea to swim, the gulls followed him. This was a sign that he was completely in tune with Nature.”

“The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The unnameable is the eternal real.”

“the value of a life is measured by the soul.”

“The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese Text, written in approximately the 6th century BC by Lao Tzu who was a record-keeper at the Zhou Dynasty court.”

“To recognize one's ignorance of unknowable things is mental health, and to be ignorant of knowable things is sickness. Only by grieving over ignorance of knowable things are we in mental health. The wise man is wise because he understands his ignorance and is grieved over it”

“Therefore the good person is the teacher of the bad person The bad person is the resource of the good person Those who do not value their teachers And do not love their resources Although intelligent, they are greatly confused5 This is called the essential wonder”

“He who knows contentment is rich;”

“Alejarse cuando se logra algo, ese es el Tao de los cielos.”

“Knowing when to stop, you can avoid any danger.”

“When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. Being and non-being create each other. Difficult and easy support each other. Long and short define each other. High and low depend on each other. Before and after follow each other.”

“Everyone recognizes beauty only because of ugliness Everyone recognizes virtue only because of sin”