Lao Tzu Quotes
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What's the difference between yes and no?
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Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions.
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The usefulness of the pot lies in its emptiness.
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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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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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To lead, one must follow.
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Do you think you can make the world a better place? I do not think you can. It is already perfect.
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He does not struggle with anyone - thus no one can vanquish him.
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The one who is conscious (in Tao) can't speak. The one who can speak is not conscious (centered in Tao)
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Excellent leaders of people lower themselves.
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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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Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way.
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The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.
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No weapon is sharper than will.
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Movement overcomes cold.
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The most straight seems curved.
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Even the longest journey must begin where you stand.
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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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People turn their eyes and ears to him (the sage), and the sage cares for them like his own children.
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Find a teacher who is an integral being, a beacon who extends his light and virtue with equal ease to those who appreciate him and those who don't. Shape yourself in his mold, bathe in his nourishing radiance, and reflect it out to the rest of the world.
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Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.
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Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!
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The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.