The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement. Thus the Master travels all day without leaving home. However splendid the views, she stays serenely in herself. Why should the lord of the country flit about like a fool? If you let yourself be blown to and fro, you lose touch with your root. If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you are.

Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.

Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.

What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Do not make them (people) weary at their work. If you do not make them weary, they will not be weary of you.