"A violent wind does not outlast the..." - Quote by Lao Tzu

“Do not strive for the shine of jade, but clatter like stone.”

“Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.”

“My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.”

“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”

“Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.”

“You moan, "She left me." "He left me,"Twenty more will come.”

“The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders At our quaint spirits.”

“Nature, body, mind go to death, not we. We neither go nor come. The man Vivekananda is in nature, is born and dies. But the Self we see as Vivekananda is never born and never dies. It is the eternal and unchangeable Reality.”

“My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.”