By compassion one can be brave.

When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless, immutable Tao.

There is no greater disaster than discontent.

When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.

Hold on to the great image, and the whole world follows, follows unharmed, content and completely at peace.

He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.

A man's excellence is like that of water; It benefits all things without striving; It takes to the low places shunned by men. Water is akin to Tao. . . . In all the earth nothing weaker than water, Yet in attacking the hard, nothing superior, Nothing so certain in wearing down strength: There is no way to resist it. Note then: The weak conquer the strong, The yielding outlast the aggressors.