"An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole forest."

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Source : Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “365 Tao: Daily Meditations”, p.38, Harper Collins

Ming-Dao Deng

#Squares Quotes #Tree Quotes #Taoism Quotes

“I'm a writer. That's who I am, at my core. I'm a writer, and then I learned production and administration, along the way. I feel like most people can learn it because production and the administration part is all about logic, and it's all about learning rules and budgets.”
“I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
“I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers...”
“Music, for the moment, has been this hidden thing for me. For the first time, I am master of something. I am not used by someone else, like in movies or pictures, where you always have the happiness or disappointment of knowing it's you seen through someone else's point of view. You go to see a film and half of the pretty scenes are not in it-the ones you liked. Living with this frustration all the time, suddenly music came as the best thing for me at home, where no one can tell you anything.”
“He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.”
“Unless we remember we cannot understand.”

Source : E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.133, RosettaBooks
“I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.”

Source : "Nina's wars" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

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