Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.

Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.

Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.

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

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

A violent wind does not last for a whole morning.

Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your wrongdoings?