Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.

The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

To forget the whole world is easy; to make the whole world forget you is hard.

You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice with a summer insect - he's bound to a single season.

Cease striving. Then there will be transformation.

It can be passed on, but not received. It can be obtained, but not seen. 可傳而不可受，可得而不可見.

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.

The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.

A good completion takes a long time; a bad completion cannot be changed later.

The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - that is the reason he is still.

All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless!

Don't go in and hide; don't come out and shine; stand stock-still in the middle.

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

Flow with whatever may happen + let your mind be free. .. stay centered, by accepting whatever you're doing. .. this is the ultimate.

Your life has a limit, but knowledge has none. If you use what is limited to pursue what has no limit, you will be in danger.

The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views - then the world will be governed.

Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down.

The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded.

Do not use life to give life to death. Do not use death to bring death to life.

People who excuse their faults and claim they didn't deserved to be punished - there are lots of them. But those who don't excuse their faults and admit they didn't deserve to be spared - they are few.

When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His movement is like that of water, his stillness like that of a mirror, his responses like those of an echo.

He who has mastered the true nature of life does not labor over what life cannot do. He who has mastered the true nature of fate does not labor over what knowledge cannot change.

But a gentleman may embrace a doctrine without necessarily wearing the garb that goes with it, and he may wear the garb without necessarily comprehending the doctrine.

Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside.

To use a horse to show that a horse is not a horse is not as good as using a non-horse to show that a horse is not a horse...

We can't expect a blind man to appreciate beautiful patterns or a deaf man to listen to bells and drums. And blindness and deafness are not confined to the body alone - the understanding has them, too.

If you were to hide the world in the world, so that nothing could get away, this would be the final reality of the constancy of things.

When a hideous man becomes a father And a son is born to him In the middle of the night He trembles and lights a lamp And runs to look in anguish On that child's face To see who he resembles.

Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.

Eyes that are blind have no way to tell the loveliness of faces and features; eyes with no pupils have no way to tell the beauty of colored and embroidered silks.

Moreover, I have heard that those who are fond of praising men to their faces are also fond of damning them behind their backs.

When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten - that may be called true forgetting.

Don't you know about the praying mantis that waved its arms angrily in front of an approaching carriage, unaware that they were incapable of stopping it? Such was the high opinion it had of its talents.

Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon what understanding does not understand and thereby come to understand.

In the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn; in the midst of the soundless, he alone hears harmony.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.

Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!

You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.

We didn't really expect to achieve anything outside of the UK, and it just went crazy. It's just crazy that people know our music. We're just humbled by it.

I do feel like I've missed out a bit because I was really close with my sisters when I was at home. It must be weird for them but they cope really well.

I was a bit of a handful when I was a kid because I was quite hyperactive. Even in the house my mum used to put me in my pram because I was so full-on.

Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.

The reason I don't tweet as much as I used to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.

I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.

There’s 3 types of fans. There’s the ones that scream, the ones that want to talk to you and the ones that don’t speak at all.

Life is a funny thing, the minute you think you've got everything figured out something comes along and turns it all upside down.