Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.

Return animosity with virtue.

Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.

You will understand a great truth when you get to realize that what you do to others, you are doing to yourself.

Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life.

The Tao never does anything, yet through it all things are done. If powerful men and women could venter themselves in it, the whole world would be transformed by itself, in its natural rhythms. People would be content with their simple, everyday lives, in harmony, and free of desire. When there is no desire, all things are at peace.

The leader is best, When people are hardly aware of his existence, Not so good when people praise his government, Less good when people stand in fear, Worst, when people are contemptuous. Fail to honor people, and they will fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who speaks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, The people say, 'We did it ourselves.'