May we live like the lotus, at home in muddy water.

What you have become is the result of what you have thought

We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.

As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.

Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise man, following the way, Crosses over, beyond the reach of death. He leaves the dark way For the way of light.

Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

Do not look at the faults of what others have done or not done; observe what you yourself have done or not done.