Lao Tzu Quotes
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No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.
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As soon as rules were made, names were given. There are already many names. One must know when it is enough.
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Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.
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If you want everything, you first have to give everything up.
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The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.
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The one who does not stray away from her/his nature will live long.
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The one who rules like the mother lasts long.
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Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.
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Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
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Lightly given promises must meet with little trust.
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A violent wind does not last for a whole morning.
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Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.
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Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing. To be all-embracing leads to righteousness, which is majestic.
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Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.
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A good door needs no lock, still it can't be opened.
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I alone am different from the others, because I am nourished by the great mother.
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Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
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The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
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Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and so on. Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.
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Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.
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To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.
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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 wise does not think that only he is right -thus he knows the truth.
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Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.