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

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?

All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.

To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.

Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.

When goodness is lost there is morality.

As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people’s hearts.

New Beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

One accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose.

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

It is not what you hear, it is where you listen from within yourself that gives meaning to the message.

Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.