By moderation one can be generous.

The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfils its destiny.

Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight.

How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.

If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.

The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound of earth. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Heaven's net is very vast. It is sparsely meshed, yet nothing slips through.