Lao Tzu (c. 6th and 5th century BCE)
“Who can be at rest and yet, stirring, slowly come to
life?
He who holds fast to this way
Desires not to be full.
It is because he is not full
That he can be worn and yet newly made.”
- From Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching (Book One, XV), translated by D. C. Lau (Penguin Classics, 1963).
