What is well planted will not be uprooted.

My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.

Those who are one with deprivation are deprived of deprivation.

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.

Racing through the field and hunting make the mind wild.

Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.