All under heaven say that my Tao is great,
That it seems useless.
Because it is great,
Therefore it seems useless.
If it were useful,
It would have long been small.
I have three treasures,
To hold and to keep:
The first is motherly love,
The second is frugality,
The third is daring not to be at the world's front.
With motherly love one can be courageous,
With frugality one can be wide reaching,
Daring not to be at the world's front,
One can grow to a full vessel.
Now to discard motherly love, yet to be courageous,
To discard frugality, yet to be wide reaching,
To discard staying behind, yet to be at the front,
One dies!
One with motherly love is victorious in battle,
Invulnerable in defence.
When Heaven wills to save a people
It guards them with motherly love.

"Three Jewels"
Lao Tzu
Tao Te-Ching
Chapter 67