"The vital spirit. L'Ã©lan vital"

-- Henri Bergson

“The man or woman who doesn't forgive has forgotten the price that Christ paid for them on the Cross.”
“Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.”
“Silence emerges from the sound of rain and spreads in a crescendo of gray monotony over the narrow street I contemplate. Iâ€™m sleeping while awake, standing by the window, leaning against it as against everything. I search in myself for the sensations I feel before these falling threads of darkly luminous water that stand out from the grimy building facades and especially from the open windows. And I donâ€™t know what I feel or what I want to feel. I donâ€™t know what to think or where I am.”
“It takes a lot more than ability to run fast; it takes the ability to keep coming back and coming back.”
“The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way.”
“What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.”
“In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.”

Source : Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific
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