Consider beginnings

"Assert non-assertion. Practise non-practice. Taste non-taste. Make great the small. Make much the little. Requite hatred with goodness. Contemplate a difficulty when it is easy. Manage a great thing when it is small. The world's most difficult undertakings necessarily originate while easy, and the world's greatest undertakings necessarily originate while small. Therefore the holy man to the end does not venture to play the great, and thus he can accomplish his greatness. As one who lightly promises rarely keeps his word, so he to whom many things are easy will necessarily encounter many difficulties. Therefore, the holy man regards everything as difficult, and thus to the end encounters no difficulties."