The Tao principle is what happens of itself.
Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.
That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
The sage's Way is to act and not to contend.
A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot.
What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening.