wisdom Quotes

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.