Live every day like your hair was on fire.

All of the significant battles are waged within the self.

Life is the only thing worth living for.

If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.

When you get to the top of the mountain, keep climbing.

There is nothing infinite apart from finite things.

Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them.

Two monks were once travelling together down a muddy road. A heavy rain was falling. Coming around a bend, they met a lovely girl in a silk kimono and sash, unable to cross the intersection.

"Come on, girl," siad the first monk. Lifting her in his arms, he carried her over the mud. The second monk did not speak again until that night when they reached a lodging temple. Then he no longer could restrain himself.

"We monks don't go near females," he said. "It is dangerous. Why did you do that?" "I left the girl there,: the first monk said. "Are you still carrying her?

When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.

One day Chuang-tzu and a friend were walking along a riverbank. "How delightfully the fishes are enjoying themselves in the water!" Chuang-tzu exclaimed.

"You are not a fish," his friend said. "How do you know whether or not the fishes are enjoying themselves?"

"You are not me," Chuang-tzu said. "How do you know that I do not know that the fishes are enjoying themselves?"

The more you know the less you understand.

In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.