Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!

Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.

Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.

Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties.

To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.