A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.
The sage is one with the world, and lives in harmony with it.
First and last follow each other.
When taxes are too high, people go hungry.
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
If you are at peace, you are living in the present.