Watch your thoughts, they become words.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.

Do not make them (people) weary at their work. If you do not make them weary, they will not be weary of you.

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

All things flourish, and each returns to its source.

A man's excellence is like that of water; It benefits all things without striving; It takes to the low places shunned by men. Water is akin to Tao. . . . In all the earth nothing weaker than water, Yet in attacking the hard, nothing superior, Nothing so certain in wearing down strength: There is no way to resist it. Note then: The weak conquer the strong, The yielding outlast the aggressors.