The Way is ever without action, yet nothing is left undone.
Allow your softer, more intuitive, and less dominating feminine qualities to rise to the fore, so that you're surrendering rather than dominating, receiving rather than broadcasting, loving rather than fighting.
The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.
Do not strive for the shine of jade, but clatter like stone.
When two opposing sides meet in battle, the one without an enemy will be victorious.
Those who advice the ruler on the Way, do not want the world subdued with weapons.