Lao Tzu Quotes
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The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
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A sage is skilled at helping people without excluding anyone.
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What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.
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Those who show off do not shine.
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If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner peace.
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Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity.
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Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience.
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Meandering leads to perfection.
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Gain or loss, what is worse?
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Because he (the Sage) opposes no one, no one in the world can oppose him.
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No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.
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Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.
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The Tao is like a well; used but never used up.
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The highest benevolence acts without purpose.
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Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.
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The superior student listens to the Way and follows it closely. The average student listens to the Way and follows some and some not. The lesser student listens to the Way and laughs out loud. If there were no laughter it would not be the Way.
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The sage regards things as difficult, and thereby avoids difficulty.
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A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.
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Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.
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What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.