Author of quotes: Benjamin Hoff

In fact, the heroes become heroes because they, despite their weaknesses - and sometimes precisely because of them - do great things.

Without difficulties life would be like a river without rapids and twists and turns, that is, would be equally uninteresting, as dried concrete. Without problems there will be no inner personal growth, no joint advancement, no progress of mankind. But the main significance is determined by how he acts with them to each of us.

Each of us has something that makes us feel Miserable. It creates in our imaginations problems that don't exist, often becoming a cause of their occurrence. It exacerbates the problems that already exist. Suppresses the self-esteem and awakens the contempt of others. Deprives us of pride for a job well done for neatness and cleanliness. Turns meetings into Confrontations, expectations - in Fear and Trembling, opportunities at Risk, the inviolable steps leading upwards into Stumbling blocks. It manifests itself in grimaces of arrogance and discontent, tightening the muscles of the face and accelerates the aging process. My negative energy, it pollutes our consciousness and spreads outward, like a contagious disease, and then returns emitted or reflected by other unhappy. And so it goes.

The cause of the great difficulties is the inability to see small problems when they are just beginning to emerge. "Complexity is the easiest to resolve before they occur," wrote Lao-Tzu, and "Uporyadochenie before the onset of chaos." In other words, it is easier to prevent disease than to cure it.

You want to be happy for real? Then first of all understand yourself: what you are, what are your options. Want to be truly happy? It is enough to be eternally dissatisfied with everything. As said Lao Tzu, "from one small seed, a tree grows thick with man, the apex reaching to the stars; a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step".

Honey seems to be not so tasty after he's eaten; the achieved goal does not seem so important as before, and the resulting award is not enough valuable. Adding all the awards that we have achieved in the course of life, we get the result, not reaching any comparison with the rest of life in between awards. If you add up the awards, along with their waiting periods, then the amount they will be your entire life until the last minute. Imagine what would happen if we learn to appreciate the anticipation of rewards not less of her?
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Whenever we achieve the desired, our interest in it fades away, and we rush to other purpose, then to the next, and so on to infinity. This does not mean that the goals achieved are meaningless. But their meaning is primarily in the fact that they make us strive towards them, and it is this process that brings us wisdom, and happiness, and everything.

If all measures aimed at Saving you Time, it really saved, then logically, we would have to accumulate substantial reserves - far more than in previous generations. In fact, oddly enough, every year time we will have less. Try to go somewhere where there are no such innovations, you will be amazed how much free time you have will immediately appear. Typically, you have to struggle to acquire fixtures designed to conserve your time and effort. And the whole focus is that to save time is impossible in principle - it can only spend. But to spend it either wisely or wasted.

In China, there are tea houses in France - outdoor cafe. In almost all civilized countries there is some place where people can go to eat in peace, sit and chat, not watching the thing for hours and not falling from the floor as soon as the food is swallowed. Chinese tea house, for example - a hub of local social life. Whole families come out, in the company of neighbors and friends, and spend here as much time as you wish. Conversations and disputes can last for several hours. <...> The motto of the tea house can be expressed as follows: "You're a person. Leave the hustle and bustle and spend time as a human." And what, suppose, the motto of the Stand with Hamburgers? "You're the same bug as everyone else. Eat and get out."

All of us sooner or later have to open yourself to something that we really like. But if we have realized this, you can calmly think about it and decide what we should do with it. We want to get rid of these unwanted traits at all, or do we want to fix them or use for their own benefit? The latter two options seem preferable, because they allow to avoid the relentless struggle with itself and to use these converted properties to their advantage.

From the point of view of Taoism intellect of the scientist can be useful when analyzing particular phenomena, but he is not able to achieve a deep and comprehensive understanding of reality.

Wisdom is not knowledge; knowledge is not wisdom.

Because simplicity, as you confirm any encountered anywhere in the forest Taoist elder - not the same as stupidity. No accident perfect mind Taoism believes calm, imperturbable, passive reflective mind "a raw piece of wood", it is no coincidence that Winnie-the-Pooh, not clever Eeyore, Rabbit or Owl, is the main character of the tale of Alain Milne.

Here it is appropriate to recall a Chinese saying related to the field of medicine: "Life is long when you have one disease, and short, when no one". In other words, if a person knows about their illness and taking appropriate measures, it will live much longer than someone who turns a blind eye to their weaknesses and imperfections. So in that sense your weakness (provided that you acknowledge) is, in some way, to your advantage. Similarly, it is necessary to know their limits.

Admiring those who are not deprived
Nor strength, nor height,
Suddenly I see that he can not
Accomplish what you can do.
So, therefore, I am just funny,
Ashamed of the small fry?
And if others I've become
And bigger and stronger -
That is very much lost
I would be his.
So is it worth the growth to blame?
Why would I want to be great?
Destiny not the best weapon to take in hand
And become himself?