If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Lao Tan said, “I was letting my mind wander in the beginning of things.”
“What does this mean?” asked Confucius. Lao Tan said, “It means to attain Perfect Beauty and wander in Perfect Happiness. He who attains Perfect Beauty and wanders in Perfect Happiness may be called the Perfect Man.”
