"Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.Patient with both friends and enemies,you accord with the way things are.Compassionate toward yourself,you reconcile all beings in the world."
"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you."
"A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live."
"Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil."
"If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it."
"If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it."