It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.

Holding on to the weak is called strength.

When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally.

Watch your thoughts, they become words.

Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.

Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.

Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.