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.

Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.

Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness.

Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

Movement overcomes cold.

Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.

The Tao of the sage is work without effort.