Lao Tzu Quotes
-
Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness.
-
Yielding, like ice about to melt.
-
A good counter needs no calculator.
-
A brave and passionate man will kill or be killed. A brave and calm man will always preserve life. Of these two which is good and which is harmful?
-
Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.
-
The one who is filled by virtue is like a newborn baby.
-
When you let go of what you are, you become what you might be.
-
. . . the integral being is attached to nothing and can relate to everyone with an unstructured attitude. Because of this, her very existence benefits all things.
-
How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.
-
Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.
-
I do not interfere, and people become rich by themselves.
-
Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.
-
Heaven and Earth last for ever. Why do Heaven and Earth last for ever? They are unborn, so ever living. The sage stays behind, thus he is ahead. He is detached, thus at one with all. Through selfless action, he attains fulfillment.
-
Heaven's Way gives no favors. It always remains with good people.
-
Those who are self-righteous are not prominent.
-
If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.
-
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.
-
(The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things.
-
Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.
-
Wear down to be renewed.
-
The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.
-
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.
-
Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life? To an integral being, there is no such distinction.
-
Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.