The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies.

Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling, and on the empty space within, its use depends. Thus, while the existence of things may be good, it is the non-existence in them that makes them serviceable.

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

The truest sayings are paradoxical.

To know people is wisdom, but to know yourself is enlightenment. to master people takes force, but to master yourself takes strength. to know contentment is wealth, and to live with strength resolve. to never leave whatever you are is to abide, and to die without getting lost- that is to live on and on.

I will be fond of keeping still, and the people will of themselves become correct.

The one who rules like the mother lasts long.