Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

“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.”

When you are always ready to embrace the last option-death; then all other options chase you, thus spake Lao Tzu.

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.

The goal is, to conquer an enemy without fighting, win a debate without arguing, solve a problem without trying and achieve an object without pursuing, thus spake Lao Tzu.