“Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace.”

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.

The further one goes, the less one knows.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry.

To know that you do not know is the best.

Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

Avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know.

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.

You’re beautiful, but you’re empty. No one could die for you.

An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier and simpler.

Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that’s twice as big as it needs to be.

Nothing compares to the emptiness we both share.

Love to be real, it must cost – it must hurt – it must empty us of self.

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.