The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.

Accept disgrace willingly... Accept being unimportant... Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.

Nothing is weaker than water, Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong, Nothing surpasses it.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

To attain to the human form must always be a source of joy. And then to undergo continuous transitions, with only the infinite to look forward to: what incomparable bliss is that!

Justice has long arm.

All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.