Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby?

Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

He who knows he has enough is rich.

Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness.