Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.

Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.

That which shrinks must first expand.

She who is centered in the Tao can go where she wishes, without danger. She perceives the universal harmony, even amid great pain, because she has found peace in her heart. Music or the smell of good cooking may make people stop and enjoy. But words that point to the Tao seem monotonous and without flavor. When you look for it, there is nothing to see. When you listen for it, there is nothing to hear. When you use it, it is inexhaustible.

Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end.

Nature doesn't make long speeches.

We go from birth to death. Three out of ten follow life. Three out of ten follow death. People who rush from birth to death are also three out of ten. Why is that so? Because they want to make too much of life.