Lao Tzu Quotes
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Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is known and feared; the worst government is hated.
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Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.
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Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.
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Those who know when it is enough will not perish.
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Heavy is the root of light.
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The sage never strives for greatness, and can therefore accomplish greatness.
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Carrying body and soul and embracing the one, Can you avoid separation?
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He who stands on tiptoe is not steady. He who strides cannot maintain the pace. He who makes a show is not enlightened. He who is self-righteous is not respected. He who boasts achieves nothing. He who brags will not endure. According to followers of the Tao, "These are extra food and unnecessary luggage." They do not bring happiness, therefore followers of the Tao avoid them.
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{The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.
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People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve.
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The Way is hidden and nameless. Still only the Way nourishes and completes.
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Return animosity with virtue.
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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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No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves greatness.
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Heaven is eternal, earth everlasting. they endure this way because they do not live for themselves. in the same way, the wise person puts himself last, and thereby finds himself first, holds himself outside, and thereby remains at the center, abandons himself, and is thereby fulfilled.
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The most eloquent seems to stutter.
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The Way is empty, yet inexhaustible, like an abyss!
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Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength.
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. . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable and manageable. But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable. There is, however, this consolation: She who lets go of the knife will find the Tao at her fingertips.
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I find good people good And I find bad people good If I am good enough.
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The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
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True power is stillness within motion.
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A good wanderer leaves no trace.