“Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.”

Just remain in the center; watching. And then forget that you are there.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.

He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.

One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.

When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are.

Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don’t see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.

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

If you want to know me, Look inside your heart.

Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

When I saw you, when I saw you I could not breathe, I fell so deep. When I saw you, when I saw you I’d never be, I’d never be the same.

Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.

The future is purchased by the present.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.

But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.

Hope is a four letter word but so is hurt.

There’s too much hurt in loving but too little life in not.