Lao Tzu Quotes
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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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From caring comes courage.
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By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.
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The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.
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Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
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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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Going on means going far, going far means returning.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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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.
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Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?
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If I have even just a little sense, I will walk on the main road and my only fear will be of straying from it. Keeping to the main road is easy, But people love to be sidetracked.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
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Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
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The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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Silence is a source of great strength.
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.