"When you are constantly hearing offensive words and always have some irritating matter in mind, only then do you have a whetstone for character development. If you hear only what pleases you, and deal only with what thrills you, then you are burying your life in deadly poison."

-- Zicheng Hong

#Character Quotes #Mind Quotes #Taoism Quotes

“As a matter of law the states recognized no constraints on their legislative scope other than those that were self-imposed. Even where particular state constitutions paid ideological lip service to constraints deriving from religious or natural law doctrines, they reserved to some constitutionally-defined body or person the right to interpret these doctrines.”
“Harry Potter is awesome.”
“The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.”
“Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.”
“Well, maybe I'm not so emotionally dysfunctional after all.”
“Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.”
“You don't have to be equal, you don't have to be better, you don't have to be worse. You can just be at peace.”
“We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.”

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