If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.

Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

Yield and overcome; Bend and be straight; Empty and be full; Wear out and be new; Have little and gain; Have much and be confused. ...The ancients say, "Yield and overcome." Is that an empty saying? Be really whole, And all things will come to you.

Return animosity with virtue.

If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room.

Those who know when it is enough will not perish.