The Way to do is to be.
Other people have more than they need, I alone seem wanting.
The first practice is the practice of undiscriminating virtue: take care of those who are deserving; also, and equally, take care of those who are not. When you extend your virtue in all directions without discriminating, you feet are firmly planted on the path that returns to the Tao.
When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.
Lightly given promises must meet with little trust.
The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims.
Wisdom is knowing that if you bend, you don't have to break. Sometimes it is necessary to go with the flow of life.
By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.
Those who know when to halt are unharmed.
Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?
Get some distance on yourself and undertand the multilevel structure that's operating. There's a power structure within you. You're a very political creature.
All things carry yin and embrace yang. They reach harmony by blending with the vital breath.
The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.
True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.
There is one appointed supreme executioner. Truly, trying to take the place of the supreme executioner is like trying to carve wood like a master carpenter. Of those who try to carve wood like a master carpenter, there are few who do not injure their hands.
Taking things lightly must lead to big difficulties.
The Sage embraces similarity of understanding and pays no regard to similarity of form. The world in general is attracted by similarity of form, but remains indifferent to similarity of understanding.
Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your wrongdoings?
Delicious foods are drugs that will inflame the gut and rot the bones, but there is no harm if one eats moderately. Delightful things are all purveyors of destruction and decadence, but there is no regret if one enjoys them moderately.
If you do not join the polluted, then you are pure; if you reject society in search of purity, that is not purity but fanaticism.