"Nature does not have to insist...." - Quote by Lao Tzu

“Lightly given promises must meet with little trust.”

“Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.”

“Good leaders reach solutions, and then stop. They do not dare to rely on force.”

“It was a murky confusion — here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel — of flying clouds tossed up into most remarkable heaps, suggesting greater heights in the clouds than there were depths below them to the bottom of the deepest hollows in the earth, through which the wild moon seemed to plunge headlong, as if, in a dread disturbance of the laws of nature, she had lost her way and were frightened.”

“Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.”

“I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.”

“In the Universe the difficult things are done as if they were easy.”

“The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.”

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”