Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
The Tao is nowhere to be found. Yet it nourishes and completes all things.
When men lost their understanding of the Tao, intelligence came along, bringing hypocrisy with it.
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
Become totally empty. Quiet the restlessness of the mind only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness.
To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.
If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.
If you want to lead them you must place yourself behind them.
Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.
He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.
If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.
When there is no desire, all things are at peace.
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.