Echoes

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Slow and steady wins the race.

It is to this law that our souls must adjust themselves, this they should follow, this they should obey. Whatever happens, assume that it was bound to happen, and do not be willing to rail at Nature. That which you cannot reform, it is best to endure, and to attend uncomplainingly upon the God under whose guidance everything progresses; for it is a bad soldier who grumbles when following his commander.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Resolve your mental energy into abstraction, your physical energy into inaction. Allow yourself to fall in with the natural order of phenomena, without admitting the element of self,—and the empire will be governed.

If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be rich.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure.

My Son, patience and humility in adversities are more pleasing to Me than much comfort and devotion in prosperity.

Accept everything just the way it is.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me never to delight in praise or to be distressed by reproach. Before my Soul taught me, I doubted the value of my accomplishments until the passing days sent someone who would extol or disparage them. But now I know that trees blossom in the spring and give their fruits in the summer without any desire for accolades. And they scatter their leaves abroad in the fall and denude themselves in the winter without fear of reproof.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow.