 Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. |
| He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted. |
| Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. |
| Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength. |
| How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men? |
| The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. |
| Nature is not human hearted. |
| Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself. |
| To lead people walk behind them. |
| Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. |
| Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. |
| Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. |
| Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven. |
| Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. |
| People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. |
| Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself. |
| Silence is a source of great strength. |
| The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. |
| Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment. |
| The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest. |
