No Te Compares Quotes & Sayings

Hely's feelings didn't run very deep; he lived in sunny shallows where it was always warm and bright. — Donna Tartt

When each moment becomes an expectation life is deprived of fulfillment, and death is dreaded for it seems that here expectation must come to an end. — Alan W. Watts

Get up and move at work today! Don't spend the whole day on your butt. Take a walk. Get some exercise. Play a game. Move! — Alexander Kjerulf

Te is thus the natural miracle of one who seems born to be wise and humane, comparable to what we call "perfect specimens" of flowers, trees, or butterflies - though sometimes our notions of the perfect specimen are too formal. Thus Chuang-tzu enlarges on the extraordinary virtue of being a hunchback, and goes on to suggest that being weird in mind may be even more advantageous than being weird in body. He compares the hunchback to a vast tree which has grown to a great old age by virtue of being useless for human purposes because its leaves are inedible and its branches twisted and pithy.5 Formally healthy and upright humans are conscripted as soldiers, and straight and strong trees are cut down for lumber; wherefore the sage gets by with a perfect appearance of imperfection, such as we see in the gnarled pines and craggy hills of Chinese painting. — Alan W. Watts

Problems created by ignorance are always solved by information. The best information is an inspiration that brings an end to the belief "it's impossible"! — Israelmore Ayivor

Patriarchy is not God's dream for humanity. — Sarah Bessey

Thanks. I appreciate your belief in me. — Jaci Burton

We must always apologize for talking painting. — Paul Valery

If you can change the fate of a character you read out of a book by adding new words to his story, then maybe you can change everything about it: who goes out, who comes in, how it ends, who's happy, and who's unhappy afterwards. — Cornelia Funke

Every character has to want something, even if it's only a glass of water. — Kurt Vonnegut

And I understand, for the first time, that I have the power to destroy everything. — Tahereh Mafi