The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.

The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.

The sturdiest virtue seems fragile.

To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life.

My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.

Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?

Allow your softer, more intuitive, and less dominating feminine qualities to rise to the fore, so that you're surrendering rather than dominating, receiving rather than broadcasting, loving rather than fighting.