The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.

Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight.

I do not act, and people become reformed by themselves.

Make the small big and the few many.

It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.

It's hard to keep your balance standing tip-toe.

What has not yet emerged is easy to prevent.