The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.

Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.

Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.

Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.

What is well planted will not be uprooted.

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.