#chinese

Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#empiricism #epistemology #military-philosophy #philosophy #war

Did you ever want something so deeply you were scared to let yourself have it? Like a desire so great you know you will never forgive yourself if you fail. So you hang back. And then you wake up one day and you realize if you don't do it now, it will move out of reach forever. ↗

— Nicole Mones

#forgiveness

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#distilled #i #i wonder #like #poets

If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#happiness #philosophy-of-life #life

Countless words count less than the silent balance between yin and yang ↗

— Lao Tzu

#classics #tao-te-ching #balance

It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful. ↗

— Carole Wilkinson

#dragon-keeper #dragons #inspirational #wisdom #inspirational

Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty. ↗

— Xiaolu Guo

#life #wisdom #life

I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#express #feel #hearts #i #out

For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders. ↗

— Bill Bradley

#even #four #hate #i #kinds

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#chinese people #destroy #nothing #people #relentless