"Empty your mind of all thoughts...." - Quote by Lao Tzu

“Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.”

“Those who praise victory relish manslaughter. Those who relish manslaughter cannot reach their goals in the world.”

“He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.”

“The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.”

“Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.”

“We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave.”

“An empty day, though clear and bright, Is just as dark as any night.”

“About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.”

“Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.”