The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.
Heaven's Way is like stretching a bow. The high is lowered and the low is raised. Excess is reduced and deficiency is replenished. Heaven's Way reduces excess and replenishes deficiency. People's Way is not so. They reduce the deficient and supply the excessive.
Let the country be small, and the inhabitants few.
See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things
The one who is filled by virtue is like a newborn baby.
People turn their eyes and ears to him (the sage), and the sage cares for them like his own children.