One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Passing on, it becomes remote. Having become remote, it returns.

In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle – this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.

Take care with the end as you do with the beginning.

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

There is nothing like moderation.

Opinion is the barren flower of the Way, the beginning of ignorance.