Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
He who is contented is rich.
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
To lead people walk behind them.
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
From wonder into wonder existence opens.
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
