Strong winds do not last all morning, hard rains do not last all day.
Abandon knowledge and your worries are over.
The sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade.
So the unwanting soul sees what’s hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants.
Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.
I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.
Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.
The sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose.
He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties.
A winner listens, a loser just waits until it is their turn to talk.
Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
True power is stillness within motion.
Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.
Without going outside, you may know the whole world!
He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.
Heaven’s Way does not contend, yet it certainly triumphs. It does not speak, yet it certainly answers. It does not summon, yet things come by themselves. It seems to be at rest, yet it certainly has a plan.
Man is ruled by Earth. Earth is ruled by Heaven. Heaven is ruled by the Way. The Way is ruled by itself.
My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice. Still, no one in the world can understand or practice them.
What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening.
The most complete seems lacking. Yet in use it is not exhausted.