"A sound man is good at salvage,..." - Quote by Lao Tzu

“All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All things alike do their work, and then we see them subside. When they have reached their bloom, each returns to its origin. . . . This reversion is an eternal law. To know that law is wisdom.”

“Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them.”

“Love the whole world as if it were your self; then you will truly care for all things.”

“In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.”

“To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.”

“make away out of no way”

“To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of that moment.”

“Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.”

“Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.”