“Confusion is a gift from God. Those times when you feel most desperate for a solution, sit. Wait. The information will become clear. The confusion is there to guide you. Seek detachment and become the producer of your life.”
― The RZA, quote from The Tao of Wu
“It's harder to make the glass than break the glass.”
― The RZA, quote from The Tao of Wu
“Knowing others is wisdom. Knowing yourself is Enlightenment. - Lao-Tzu”
― The RZA, quote from The Tao of Wu
“The first person you have to resurrect is yourself”
― The RZA, quote from The Tao of Wu
“Life comes when you have knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, when you can see for real, touch, and feel for real, know for real. Then you are truly living.”
― The RZA, quote from The Tao of Wu
“Decay is inevitable, but death is not.”
― The RZA, quote from The Tao of Wu
“Truth out of season bears no fruit" To me, that means two things. One: There's a time and place for every kind of knowledge to flourish. Two: The personal characteristics of great messengers are usually irrelevant.”
― The RZA, quote from The Tao of Wu
“In a way, when TV went digital, we lost a foothold in reality. Now, we'll never truly know if what we're watching is real or has been altered and transmitted to us. Digital culture brought a step away from truth.”
― The RZA, quote from The Tao of Wu
“So love, like wisdom, dissolves you and then resolves you. It breaks down your ego and puts you back together again properly. When”
― The RZA, quote from The Tao of Wu
“I don’t think a computer can process information to even 10 percent of what the human brain does. The brain’s got mad shit going on in your body right now.”
― The RZA, quote from The Tao of Wu
“In defense of King, country, and family, he would unhesitatingly have sacrificed his virtue to Nessie, had that been required. If it was a question of Olivia marrying a man with syphilis and half the British army being exterminated in battle, versus himself experiencing a "personal interview" with Richard Caswell, though, he rather thought Olivia and the King had best look to their own devices.”
― Diana Gabaldon, quote from Lord John and the Private Matter
“Once a friend, always a friend. Why should borders stop that?”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Fading Echoes
“A book is a device to ignite the imagination.”
― Alan Bennett, quote from The Uncommon Reader
“There is no need to tell someone how to do his job if you have properly trained your team”
― Dick Winters, quote from Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
“I'd once read somewhere that is takes about half as long to recover from a deep relationship as the relationship lasted.”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
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