He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature’s lessons.
All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.
There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.
Even the longest journey must begin where you stand.
The leader’s main job is to make themselves obsolete.
If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
Observe how endings become beginnings.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
People who have to fight for their living and are not afraid to die for it are higher persons than those who, stationed high, are too fat to dare to die.
In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!
You should rule a great country As you would fry a small fish- With the least turning.
With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour.
Going back to the origin is called peace; it means reversion to destiny. Reversion to destiny is called eternity. Those who know eternity are called enlightened.
I find good people good And I find bad people good If I am good enough.
If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.
He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.
It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.
When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy.
The wise man doesn’t compete; therefore nobody can compete with him.
He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the world as he does his own body can be entrusted with the world.