Inspirational Quotes by Zhiming Yuan

“A bad man is a good man's job”

“To know and yet (think) we do not know is the highest (attainment); not to know (and yet think) we do know is a disease.”

“Always without desire we must be found,”

“There are few in the world who attain to the teaching without words, and the advantage arising from non-action.”

“Whoever is planted in the Tao will not be rooted up. Whoever embraces the Tao will not slip away. Her name will be held in honor from generation to generation. Let the Tao be present in your life and you will become genuine. Let it be Present in your family and your family will flourish. Let it be present in your country and your country will be an example to all countries in the world. Let it be present in the universe and the universe will sing. How do I know this is true? by looking inside myself.”

“If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial. If you want to become straight, let yourself be crooked. If you want to become full, let yourself be empty. If you want to be reborn, let yourself die. If you want to be given everything, give everything up.”

“It is better to leave a vessel unfilled, than to attempt to carry it when it is full.”

“stillness, the ruler of movement.”

“It is because he is thus free from striving that therefore no one in the world is able to strive with him.”

“Look, and it can't be seen. Listen, and it can't be heard. Reach, and it can't be grasped.”

“The Tao is (like) the emptiness of a vessel; and in our employment of it we must be on our guard against all fulness.”

“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.”

“If we could renounce our sageness and discard our wisdom, it would be better for the people a hundredfold.”

“If we could renounce our benevolence and discard our righteousness, the people would again become filial and kindly.”

“The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving (to the contrary), the low place which all men dislike.”

“Therefore the sage puts his own person last, and yet it is found in the foremost place; he treats his person as if it were foreign to him, and yet that person is preserved.”

“Abstaining from speech marks him who is obeying the spontaneity of his nature.”

“All difficult things in the world are sure to arise from a previous state in which they were easy, and all great things from one in which they were small.”

“The soft overcomes the hard; and the weak the strong.”

“He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know.”