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Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.

As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

The secret of being boring is to say everything.

Don't judge others because they sin differently than you.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

You're not a pornstar and neither is she. but go ahead and try the thing you wanted to do anyway.

Consequences fade with age. Experiences last a lifetime. Go for it.

If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel—as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them—wherever you go … Which is to say: if you’re lucky enough to be able to do the above, do not **** up.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.

Some people walk in the rain. Others just get wet.

Your knife is necessary, but not sufficient. Always collect what's useful. Reject only your ignorance and you might survive.

This is the first test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.

Not to get all technical; but according to chemistry, alcohol is a solution!

Know and watch your heart. It is pure but disturbing emotions come to colour it. So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to catch emotions and feelings that come, and investigate them before you react.

Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. I's that scary.

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.