Lao Tzu Quotes
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The one who can dissolve her mind will suddenly discover the Tao at her feet.
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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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A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get what they need, the great country ought to yield.
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Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.
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Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.
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A good mooring needs no knot, still no one can untie it.
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Cultivate virtue in yourself, and it will be true.
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A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).
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. . . learn to value what is important today in the subtle realm rather than what appears desirable tomorrow in the worldly realm.
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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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A good counter needs no calculator.
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Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your wrongdoings?
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Those who defeat others are strong, those who defeat themselves are mighty.
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If you fail to honor your people, They will fail to honor you; It is said of a good leader that When the work is done, the aim fulfilled, The people will say, "We did this ourselves."
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One's own self or material goods, which has more worth? Loss (of self) or possession (of goods), which is the greater evil? He who loves most, spends most, He who hoards much loses much.
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There is no greater fault than sensual indulgence. There is no greater misfortune than malcontent. There is no greater calamity than greed.
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The best way to manage anything is by making use of its own nature.
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Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.
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A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot.
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The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
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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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The Master's power is like this. He lets all things come and go effortlessly, without desire. He never expects results; thus he is never disappointed. He is never disappointed; thus his spirit never grows old.
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Know honor, Yet keep humility. Be the valley of the universe! Being the valley of the universe, Ever true and resourceful, Return to the state of the uncarved block.
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Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.