Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.
If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river flowing forever through a vast and fertile valley. Silent and uncreated, it creates all things.
The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.
Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.
The wise does not think that only he is right -thus he knows the truth.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.