The wise man doesn't compete; therefore nobody can compete with him.

The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.

Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings.

The Tao never does anything, yet through it all things are done. If powerful men and women could venter themselves in it, the whole world would be transformed by itself, in its natural rhythms. People would be content with their simple, everyday lives, in harmony, and free of desire. When there is no desire, all things are at peace.

Make the small big and the few many.

Other people have more than they need, I alone seem wanting.