We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.

The greatest revelation is stillness.

If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, you must first allow it to flourish. If you want to take something, you must first allow it to be given. This is called the subtler perception of the way things are. The soft overcomes the hard. The slow overcomes the fast. Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not.

Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.

Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.

The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.