Lao Tzu Quotes
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To know people is wisdom, but to know yourself is enlightenment. to master people takes force, but to master yourself takes strength. to know contentment is wealth, and to live with strength resolve. to never leave whatever you are is to abide, and to die without getting lost- that is to live on and on.
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In the Universe the difficult things are done as if they were easy.
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If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.
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Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.
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Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.
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Battles are followed by years of famine.
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Kindness in words creates confidence.
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Yielding is the manner of the Way.
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The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
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Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.
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What's the difference between yes and no?
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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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The progress of the Way seems retreating.
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Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.
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He who hoards much loses much.
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What has not yet emerged is easy to prevent.
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The Way is ever nameless.
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Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.
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A good mooring needs no knot, still no one can untie it.
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A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
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A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get what they need, the great country ought to yield.
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Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.
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. . . integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness, and no mental concepts or attitudes are present to dim that light.
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When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious.