Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.
History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.
The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
Better known as the Secret of the Golden Flower, this is a famous neidan text that the Western world came to know through Richard Wilhelm's 1929 translation. The Chinese text used by Wilhelm was edited by Zhanran Huizhen zi in 1921. Besides this, at least five more versions are available, all of which date to the late Qing dynasty (1644-1911) and are ascribed to Lu Dongbin, who revealed them through spirit writing.
Women will have all the power one day anyway. It's just a matter of time.
I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing.
I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.