Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.
The highest truth cannot be put into words.
When the great Tao is abandoned, benevolence and righteousness arise.
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.
To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.