"Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got."
- Benjamin Hoff
"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun."
- Alan W. Watts
"Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing."
- Lao Tzu
"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
"He who is in harmony with the Taois like a newborn child.Its bones are soft, its muscles are weak,but its grip is powerful.It doesn't know about the unionof male and female,yet its penis can stand ere..."
"But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives of conventional language has no way of conceiving an intelligence whi..."
"(So), he who displays himself does not shine; he who asserts his own views is not distinguished; he who vaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged; he who is self-conceited has no superiority..."
"When two things occur successively we call them cause and effect if we believe one event made the other one happen. If we think one event is the response to the other, we call it a reaction. If we fee..."
- Liezi
"When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the slightest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth, then..."
- Hsin Hsin Ming
"Some people think they can find satisfaction in good food, fine clothes, lively music, and sexual pleasure. However, when they have all these things, they are not satisfied. They realize happiness is ..."