Dao De Jing

63. Difficulty

Practice no-action;

Attend to do-nothing;

Taste the flavorless,

Magnify the small,

Multiply the few,

Return love for hate.

Deal with the difficult while it is yet easy;

Deal with the great while it is yet small;

The difficult develops naturally from the easy,

And the great from the small;

So the sage, by dealing with the small,

Achieves the great.

Who finds it easy to promise finds it hard to be trusted;

Who takes things lightly finds things difficult;

The sage recognizes difficulty, and so has none.