“To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.”

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.

He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.

Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.

A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.

Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.

The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.

I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.

The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.

The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.

Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.

We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.

Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.

If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.

Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world

The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?

Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

Music is only a means to an end – it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man

The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It’s not the end. It’s the start of a new era.

For peace and brotherhood, I am ready to serve the Turkish state, and I believe that for this end I must remain alive.

I still know the fabric of where I begin and end.