The forceful and violent will not die from natural causes.

A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.

The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.

It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.

If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.

When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals.

Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.