If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.
Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.
When great armies go to war, Sorrow is the sole winner.
The Way is eternal. Until your last day, you are free from peril.
Allow your softer, more intuitive, and less dominating feminine qualities to rise to the fore, so that you're surrendering rather than dominating, receiving rather than broadcasting, loving rather than fighting.
To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.