Lao Tzu Quotes
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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
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Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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The very highest is barely known. Then comes that which people know and love, Then that which is feared, Then that which is despised. Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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Love the whole world as if it were your self; then you will truly care for all things.
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Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
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Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love.
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He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
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To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
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The best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves the communal good. The best leader follows the will of the people. All of the embody the virtue of non-competition. Not that they don't love to compete, but they do it in the spirit of play. In this they are like children and in harmony with the Tao.
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.