Lao Tzu Quotes
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.
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The sage does not strive to be great. Thereby he can accomplish the great.
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Strong winds do not last all morning, hard rains do not last all day.
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Stillness is easy to maintain.
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Stillness overcomes heat.
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When the palace is magnificent, the fields are filled with weeds, and the granaries are empty.
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The Tao principle is what happens of itself.
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An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.
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Seeing the small is called clarity.
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The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.
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In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.
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The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, as rugged and common as a stone.
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The universe is deathless; Is deathless because, having no finite self, it stays infinite. A sound man by not advancing himself stays the further ahead of himself, By not confining himself to himself sustains himself outside himself: By never being an end in himself he endlessly becomes himself.
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The sage never strives for greatness, and can therefore accomplish greatness.
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Heavy is the root of light.
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The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao.
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Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows for a room; It is the holes which make it useful. Therefore benefit comes from what is there; Usefulness from what is not there.
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Silence is a source of great strenght.
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The most fundamental seems fickle.
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Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.
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Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.
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Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.
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If princes and kings were not exalted they might be overthrown.