We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.
Tao Te Ching, Lao-Tzu
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Oscar Wilde: Actors are so fortunate
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Alternative Lyrics: Wuthering Heights
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Human, All Too Human: The Advocate of the Devil
Only by our own suffering do we become wise, only by others’ suffering do we become good…
Tao Te Ching: 79
Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame…
Human, All Too Human: Man as Comic Actor of the World 1 & 2
If a God created the world, he created man to be his ape…
Tao Te Ching: 76
Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard…
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