When you let go of what you are, you become what you might be.

The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine.

The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.

Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness.

We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.