Lao Tzu Quotes
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He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.
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The softest in the world surpasses the hardest in the world.
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Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.
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You will understand a great truth when you get to realize that what you do to others, you are doing to yourself.
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Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
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A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.
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If you want everything, you first have to give everything up.
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. - Diane Arbus By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
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Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is to say 'I don't want to.'
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The Way that can be walked is not the eternal Way.
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The one who does not stray away from her/his nature will live long.
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Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion.
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Practice non-action. Work without doing.
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When the worst student hears about the Way, he laughs out loud. If he did not laugh, it would be unworthy of being the Way.
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The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved.
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A man's excellence is like that of water; It benefits all things without striving; It takes to the low places shunned by men. Water is akin to Tao. . . . In all the earth nothing weaker than water, Yet in attacking the hard, nothing superior, Nothing so certain in wearing down strength: There is no way to resist it. Note then: The weak conquer the strong, The yielding outlast the aggressors.
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The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.
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He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes and kings in speaking of themselves use the terms "lonely," "friendless," "of small account." Is not this making humility their base?
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Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.
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I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.
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Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves.
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Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.
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Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful.
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When taxes are too high, people go hungry.