Strong winds do not last all morning, hard rains do not last all day.

Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love.

Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.

Yielding is the way of the Tao.

Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.

The Way to Heaven has no favorites. It is always with the good man.

Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.