"All of Chinese thinking - Confucianism, Taoism, as well as Buddhism - contains the idea that in the course of life, man will shape harmoniously those psychic and physical predispositions that he received as capital assets by unifying them and giving them form from within a center."

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Source : Richard Wilhelm (2014). “Lectures on the "I Ching": Constancy and Change”, p.162, Princeton University Press

Richard Wilhelm

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“James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.”
“I realized that were I to paint flowers small, no one would look at them because I was unknown. So I thought I'll make them big, like the huge buildings going up. People will be startled; they'll have to look at them - and they did.”
“I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.”
“Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.”
“Everyone's work is equally important.”
“It is our expression that the flux between that which isn't and that which won't be, or the state that is commonly and absurdly called "existence," is a rhythm of heavens and hells: that the damned won't stay damed; that salvation only precedes perdition.”

Source : "The Book of The Damned". Book by Charles Fort, 1919.
“Im sorry Im not gay or Jewish, so I dont have a special interest group of journalists that support me.”
“Getting into my teen years, I was filled with so much shame and pain that I got really involved with drugs and alcohol. I was hanging out with the wrong people and getting involved in the wrong relationships and everything just sort of spun out of control.”

Source : "Justin Bieber's Mom Has Her Own Story To Tell". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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