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"Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter’s place. When you handle the master carpenter’s tools, chances are that you’ll cut yourself."
Lao Tzu

Piling wrote:Here I open a topic for members post the quotes they like or that strikes them, or that they find interesting even if they are not sure to agree at 100% but want to debate.


Honor to Chinese wisdom :

"Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter’s place. When you handle the master carpenter’s tools, chances are that you’ll cut yourself."
Lao Tzu

I like the philosophy of let it go, though I am not very skillful for stopping to hope I can fix the world.

"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."
— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

Where there is no hope there can be no endeavour

Samuel Johnson

“Don’t move. Just die over and over. Don’t anticipate. Nothing can save you now because you have only this moment. Not even enlightenment will help you now because there are no other moments. With no future, be true to yourself and express yourself fully. Don’t move.”
— Shunryu Suzuki

Piling wrote:

“Don’t move. Just die over and over. Don’t anticipate. Nothing can save you now because you have only this moment. Not even enlightenment will help you now because there are no other moments. With no future, be true to yourself and express yourself fully. Don’t move.”
— Shunryu Suzuki

"Hamish had long ago discovered that it was easier to tuck painful things he could do nothing about at the present away into a far corner of his brain until such time as he could take some action."
— Death of a Cad, M.C. Beaton.

Piling wrote:

"Hamish had long ago discovered that it was easier to tuck painful things he could do nothing about at the present away into a far corner of his brain until such time as he could take some action."
— Death of a Cad, M.C. Beaton.

I realize that all the sentences I like nowadays are praising the 'Let It Go' philosophy.

He wondered why it was the actress television chose for the passionate sex scenes were always scrawny, sallow and angry-looking.

And yet to Hamish’s old-fashioned way of thinking, there was something slightly sad about bed before courtship. He might have fallen in love with her. Not that he was a prude or thought that Jenny’s morals were lax in any way. But in affairs, it was sometimes better to travel slowly than arrive too quickly. Instant gratification certainly knocked the spiritual side out of romance, no matter how much the modern mind tried to shout down the primitive emotion.

“Don’t settle. Don’t finish crappy books. If you don’t like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you’re not on the right path, get off it.”
— Chris Brogan

'They're such good boys. Do you know they did a special show for the Kurdish refugees and raised five thousand pounds? And all that money for the photographs goes toward restoring the abbey roof.'

'How clever of them,' said Agatha, who recognized good PR when she heard it. By donating occasionally to charity, the troupe of male strippers had made themselves respectable and allowed licensed lust to flourish in the breast of the Cotswold ladies, who would turn up by the busload to cheer them.

THE QUICHE OF DEATH, M. C. Beaton.