Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.

When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.

If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner peace.

Tao loves and nourishes all things, but does not dominate it over them.

Heaven is eternal and Earth everlasting. They can be eternal and everlasting because they do not exist for themselves, And for this reason can exist forever.

Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.