Those who stay where they are will endure.
If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.
Who can rest until the moment of action?
If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn!
To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something.
The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.
A journey of 1000 miles begins with one step.
He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.
Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.
Throw away profit and greed, and there won’t be any thieves.
If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.
A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.
He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
The best way to carve is not to split.
Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.
Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.