Meet the difficult while it is easy.

To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.

Who can enjoy enlightenment and remain indifferent to suffering in the world? This is not in keeping with the Way. Only those who increase their service along with their understanding can be called men and women of Tao.

The biggest in the world is small in its beginning.

Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end.

Other people have more than they need, I alone seem wanting.

The Tao is told is not the Tao.