Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Love is a decision. Not an emotion.
If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Silence is a source of great strength.
If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.
Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.
To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something.