Deal with it before it happens. Set things in order before there is confusion.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.

Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way.

Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.