每週金句-No.089 古云:「何必紛爭一角牆,讓他三尺有何妨,長城萬里今猶在,不見當年秦始皇。」解決衝突最佳良方,以退為進,則海闊天空。

古云:「何必紛爭一角牆,讓他三尺有何妨,長城萬里今猶在,不見當年秦始皇。」解決衝突最佳良方,以退為進,則海闊天空。

  「六尺巷」其典故包含的謙和、禮讓,實際上也是中華傳統文化的底蘊。它的「寬」不在於禮讓的「三尺」,而是「寬」在心胸的謙和。人與人相處難免會有意見分歧的時候,彼此互不相讓,當衝突發生,往往會落得兩敗俱傷。如果能像農夫插秧,以退為進。忍一時之氣,則風平浪靜,退一步設想,則海闊天空,思維寬廣,心胸不狹隘,未嘗不是一件好事呢?

  Confucius said, “A superior man upholds Dao in poverty, while a small man becomes abusive in poverty.” It is fine that a man is in poverty provided he is ambitious; it is also fine that a man is not ambitious provided he has backbone.