Lao Tzu Quotes
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Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.
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Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.
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Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.
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Do not attempt to conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance.
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Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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The sense organs, which are limited in scope and ability, randomly gather information. This partial information is arranged into judgments, which are based on previous judgments, which are usually based on someone else's foolish ideas. These false concepts and ideas are then stored in a highly selective memory system.
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He does not struggle with anyone - thus no one can vanquish him.
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People turn their eyes and ears to him (the sage), and the sage cares for them like his own children.
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The sage has no concern for himself, but makes the concerns of others his own.
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Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets one's heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he or she is automatically involved in fear of losing status.
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Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.
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If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.
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In the Universe the difficult things are done as if they were easy.
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What's the difference between yes and no?
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Take care with the end as you do with the beginning.
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Who is unhappy with little, won't be with much; who doesn't appreciate the small won't be able to take care of the large; who doesn't have enough with enough is at the margin or virtue, for the physical body lives from one day to another and if it gets what it really needs, there will be time for meditation, as long as if we try to give it everything it desires, endless will be the task.
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A sage is skilled at helping people without excluding anyone.
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A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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If you would take, you must first give.
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There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.
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If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
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To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
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The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
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Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.