Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.

When you are one with loss, the loss is experienced willingly.

Filling life exceedingly is called ominous.

The Tao never does anything, yet through it all things are done. If powerful men and women could venter themselves in it, the whole world would be transformed by itself, in its natural rhythms. People would be content with their simple, everyday lives, in harmony, and free of desire. When there is no desire, all things are at peace.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Build up virtue, and you master all.

A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!