What is calm is easy to maintain; what has not yet occurred is easy to prevent; what is weak is easy to break; what is small is easy to disperse. Stop evil before it exists; calm the mess before it breaks out.
A tree of great circumference is born from a shoot as thin as a hair; a nine-story tower rises from a handful of clay; a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step!
The one who forces nature fails; the one who clings to something loses it.
So a wise soul practices "Wuwei" (non constrain), that is why he does not fail. He does not attach himself to anything, that is why he does not lose.
When people do one thing, they often fail when they almost come to success. If you pay attention to the end as to the beginning, and then you will never fail.
So a wise requests what others do not want. He does not prize item difficult to acquire.
He learns from what others don’t learn, and he takes lessons from the mistakes of other people.
He does not dare to force pace in order to let all beings follow their nature.