Lao Tzu Quotes
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To be learned, add something each day. To be enlightened drop something each day.
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People who have to fight for their living and are not afraid to die for it are higher persons than those who, stationed high, are too fat to dare to die.
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Cultivate virtue in yourself, and it will be true.
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Health is the greatest possession.
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Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony.
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A violent wind does not last for a whole morning.
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Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.
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I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.
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The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more; having given all he has to others, he is richer still.
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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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To know people is wisdom, but to know yourself is enlightenment. to master people takes force, but to master yourself takes strength. to know contentment is wealth, and to live with strength resolve. to never leave whatever you are is to abide, and to die without getting lost- that is to live on and on.
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Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, you position is shaky. When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance. What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear? Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear? See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things.
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The softest in the world surpasses the hardest in the world.
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Weapons are not proper instruments for gentle people; they use them only when they have no other choice. Peace and quiet are what they value. They do not glory in victory.
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The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
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Meet the difficult while it is easy.
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When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
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Prepare while it's easy.
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The truly wise are content to be last. They are, therefore, first. They are indifferent to themselves. They are, therefore self-confident.
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There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.
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Battles are followed by years of famine.
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He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.