Returning is the movement of the Way.

When you are one with loss, the loss is experienced willingly.

Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.

A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.

Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]

Those who stand on their toes are not steady.

Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.