Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.

Return animosity with virtue.

Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.

Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

When the highest type of people hear Tao (Truth), they diligently practice it. When the average type of people hear Tao, they half believe in it. When the lowest type of people hear Tao, they laugh at it. If they did not laugh, it would not be Tao.

To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.