Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.
Those who take long steps cannot keep the pace.
If a great country yields to a small country, it will conquer the small country. If a small country yields to a great country, it will be conquered by the great country.
Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.
When everyone in the world sees beauty, then ugly exists.
Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?