Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing

“What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher? What is a bad man but a good man’s job? If you don’t understand this, you will get lost, however intelligent you are. It is the great secret.”

Too much thinking causes confusion and anxiety
better to stick with the simplicity of Tao

To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still

When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad.