Treat the large as the small and the few as the many.

People are born soft and weak. They die hard and stiff.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.

Those who defeat others are strong, those who defeat themselves are mighty.

To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.