If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.

Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.

In lightness the root is lost. In haste the ruler is lost.

By not claiming to be first in the world one can rule.

The one who does not stray away from her/his nature will live long.

If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

To know people is wisdom, but to know yourself is enlightenment. to master people takes force, but to master yourself takes strength. to know contentment is wealth, and to live with strength resolve. to never leave whatever you are is to abide, and to die without getting lost- that is to live on and on.