Lao Tzu Quotes
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From caring comes courage.
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Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?
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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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Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
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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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Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.
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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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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
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Going on means going far, going far means returning.
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The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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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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To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.
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Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.
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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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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. . . . If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind.
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Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.
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The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.
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The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.
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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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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.