The more you travel and meet people, the more you understand one thing:
scheming and manipulation ultimately only exhaust the person using them.
Those who love playing games are not usually clever —
they simply aren’t secure enough to live simply.
People who are truly at peace, truly self-confident, are very easy-going.
They speak directly, live clearly, and don’t need to go around in circles to prove anything.
They don’t compete through tricks and schemes,
but through dignity and inner calm.
The ancients were not wrong:
too clever becomes clumsy; too skilled becomes ordinary.
Because true wisdom doesn’t make a show of itself —
it chooses the simplest path to walk alongside others,
and the most breathable path for itself.
— Thiện Minh