Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.

Love is the greatest link that we have with those who have temporarily left us.

The purest white seems stained.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.

The one who does not honor the teacher and the one who does not honor the task, although ever so knowledgeable, they are confused.

The value of actions lies in their timing.