Act without expectation.

The one who does not honor the teacher and the one who does not honor the task, although ever so knowledgeable, they are confused.

The Tao never acts with force, yet there is nothing that it can not do.

Nothing and no one in the world is valuable or worthless.

In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.

heaven is eternal, earth everlasting. they endure this way because they do not live for themselves. in the same way, the wise person puts himself last, and thereby finds himself first, holds himself outside, and thereby remains at the center, abandons himself, and is thereby fulfilled.

Wise travelers always stop short before they come to danger.