All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any collision among them. The smaller energies are like river currents; the greater energies are seen in mighty transformations. It is this which makes heaven and earth so great.

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?

To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.

Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you.

those who understands is not better than those who appreciates, those who appreciates is not better than those who enjoys.

She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man.