Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery follow a great victory. Do only what needs to be done without using violence.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.

What is and what is not create each other.

You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science.

How can a man's life keep it's course If he will not let it flow, Those who flow as life flows know They need no other force: They feel no wear, they feel no tear, They need no mending, no repair.