Lao Tzu Quotes
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When taxes are too high, people go hungry.
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Where there is no conflict, there is no fault.
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Solve it before it happens. Order it before chaos emerges.
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Health is the greatest possession.
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The softest in the world surpasses the hardest in the world.
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Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony.
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Pounding an edge to sharpness will not make it last.
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The light of the Way seems dim.
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What has not yet emerged is easy to prevent.
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The noble must make humility his root.
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The Way is ever nameless.
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A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female.
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Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.
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Human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless.
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When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious.
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Meet the difficult while it is easy.
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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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Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health.
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Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.
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Cultivate virtue in yourself, and it will be true.