Lao Tzu Quotes
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Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby?
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I will be fond of keeping still, and the people will of themselves become correct.
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The eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you; one in seeing; one in knowing; one in loving.
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Activity conquers coldness. Stillness conquers heat.
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The wise cares about everyone, and he becomes an example to all.
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Return animosity with virtue.
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When you let go of what you are, you become what you might be.
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The whole world says that my Way is great like nothing else. It is great because it is like nothing else. If it were like everything else, it would long ago have become insignificant.
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The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way.
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The most able seems clumsy.
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Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.
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Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound union.
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Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.
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Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
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Returning is the movement of the Way.
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That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
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...The sage, traveling all day, Does not lose sight of his baggage. Though there are beautiful things to be seen, He remains unattached and calm.
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True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.
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Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery follow a great victory. Do only what needs to be done without using violence.
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I am at peace, and people become fair by themselves.
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The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become. The sharper men's weapons, The more trouble in the land.
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The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.
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Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.
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The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.