Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.

The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.

All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.

When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.

The wise man knows without traveling.

If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.