Confucius Quotes

Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.

Confucius

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• Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'

  

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• There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

  

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• On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

  

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• I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.

  

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• I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.

  

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• I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

  

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  • World
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• The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Proud

• I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.

  

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  • Good
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• Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.

  

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• The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.

  

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  • Best
  • Gift
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• Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.

  

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  • Men
  • Women
  • Job

• Well, more than me saying to the rest of the country music industry there is not enough traditional country music - that is not necessarily the statement in truth. I think more so that I, me, missed it more than anything else.

  

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  • Music
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• The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

  

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  • Always
  • Process
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• Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

  

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• I am undeniably afraid of the dark!

  

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  • Dark
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• As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary.

  

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• I love the game of basketball. I guess it started with 'Space Jam.' Right after that movie, I went out there to my little Flight hoop and tried to do every dunk in the movie.

  

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• Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others.

  

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• The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

  

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• Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished. [It., Di qui nacque che tutti li profeti armati vincero, e li disarmati rovinarono.]

  

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  • Happened
  • Conquered
  • Armed

• Giving up and letting go are too very different things, Lily. Giving up is admitting you're beat and walking away. Letting go means you're setting something free. You're releasing something that's been keeping you stuck. That takes faith and more than a little courage" -Pepere

  

  Cynthia Lord
  • Different
  • Giving Up
  • Letting Go

• For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.

  

  Solon
  • Change
  • Virtue
  • Wealth

• Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.

  

  Confucius
  • Wealth
  • Eat
  • Coarse