Excellent leaders of people lower themselves.

The most complete seems lacking. Yet in use it is not exhausted.

The best way to live / is to be like water / For water benefits all things / and goes against none of them.

Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end.

Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.

Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.

Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.