Lao Tzu Quotes
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Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not brag, and you will have merit. Do not be prideful, and your work will endure.
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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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The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
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When taxes are too high, people go hungry.
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With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
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The Way is eternal. Until your last day, you are free from peril.
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When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power or virtue. It is something within a person, and it is enhanced by following the Tao, or 'that from which nothing can deviate'.
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The more you know the less you understand.
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Can you be still and look inside?If so, then you know the truth is always available, and always responsive.
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These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.
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The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.
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Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.
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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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A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.
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Be who you are, and go the whole way.
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Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.
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The light of the Way seems dim.
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From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.
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A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.
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The Way is ever nameless.
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He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is worn out shall be renewed. He who has little shall succeed. He who has much shall go astray.
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Those who advice the ruler on the Way, do not want the world subdued with weapons.
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The generals have a saying: "Rather than make the first move it is better to wait and see. Rather than advance an inch it is better to retreat a yard." This is called going forward without advancing, pushing back without using weapons. There is no greater misfortune than underestimating your enemy. Underestimating your enemy means thinking that he is evil. Thus you destroy your three treasures and become an enemy yourself. When two great forces oppose each other, the victory will go to the one that knows how to yield.
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Prepare while it's easy.