There is no greater disaster than discontent.

Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.

Heaven and Earth are not kind. They regard all things as offerings.

The generals have a saying: "Rather than make the first move it is better to wait and see. Rather than advance an inch it is better to retreat a yard." This is called going forward without advancing, pushing back without using weapons. There is no greater misfortune than underestimating your enemy. Underestimating your enemy means thinking that he is evil. Thus you destroy your three treasures and become an enemy yourself. When two great forces oppose each other, the victory will go to the one that knows how to yield.

Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.

Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.

If you want everything, you first have to give everything up.