Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

The heart that gives, gathers.

If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly.When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

A leader is bestWhen people barely know he existsOf a good leader, who talks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, They will say, “We did this ourselves.

If you want to govern the people, You must place yourself below them.If you want to lead people, You must learn how to follow them.

Thirty spokesShare one hub.Make the nothing therein appropriate, and you will have the use of the cart.

One gains by losing and loses by gaining.

We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

Is it possible that the reason you feel as if God doesn't see you or your problems or care about your stress is because you are focused on you, instead of God?

Every outing is a learning experience.

Which is scarier-- lust or temptation?

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!

Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more.

See what you're doing wrong, laugh at it, change and do better.

A play that works well and is done quite a lot - I've never done the math - but it's probably more remunerative than a movie.