If you fail to honor people, they will fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who talks little, when her work is done, her aims fulfilled, they will all say, “We did this ourselves.”
~ Lao Zi
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If you fail to honor people, they will fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who talks little, when her work is done, her aims fulfilled, they will all say, “We did this ourselves.”
~ Lao Zi
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The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.
~ Milan Kundera
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Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.
~ Milan Kundera
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Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of great distress.
~ Milan Kundera
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When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.
~ Milan Kundera
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Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
~ Milan Kundera
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Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
~ Milan Kundera
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Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom.
~ Lao Zi
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
~ Lao Zi
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The mark of a moderate woman is freedom from her own ideas.
~ Lao Zi
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