The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.

The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - that is the reason he is still.

When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten - that may be called true forgetting.

The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.

Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon what understanding does not understand and thereby come to understand.

You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice with a summer insect - he's bound to a single season.

The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.

He who has mastered the true nature of life does not labor over what life cannot do. He who has mastered the true nature of fate does not labor over what knowledge cannot change.

You deserve the love your soul craves for.Don't settle.

We have a world full of women who are unable to exhale fully because they have for so long been conditioned to fold themselves into shapes to make themselves likeable.

Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.

dont let the old break you; let the love make you

Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.

I really have to wonder who or what made Daddy become this way. Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.

For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.

I was brought up with lies all the time... that's how you got along... I have lied my entire life...