"If I had more time I would write a shorter letter."

Pascal, Blaise | Writers and Writing | 2 bookmarks

"He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much."

Lao-Tzu | Giving | 1 bookmarks

"Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires."

Lao-Tzu | Desire | 2 bookmarks

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

Lao-Tzu | Kindness | 7 bookmarks

"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning."

Lao-Tzu | Attachment | 7 bookmarks

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants."

Lao-Tzu | Arts and Artists | 2 bookmarks

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard | Change | 83 bookmarks

"Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge -- they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely."

Belinsky, Vissarion | Literature | 1 bookmarks

"Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."

Saroyan, William | Life and Living | 6 bookmarks

"If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her."

Williamson, Nicol | Humor | 2 bookmarks