We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
If you never assume importance, you never lose it.
Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.
The surest test if a person be sane, is if she accepts life whole, as it is.
When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power or virtue. It is something within a person, and it is enhanced by following the Tao, or 'that from which nothing can deviate'.