Lao Tzu Quotes
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Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.
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When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.
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Being is born of not being.
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He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.
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Can you make your soul embrace the One and not lose it?
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There is no greater crime than desire.
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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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Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!
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By not claiming to be first in the world one can rule.
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The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.
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That which is achieved the most, still has the whole of its future yet to be achieved.
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If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.
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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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Embrace simplicity. Put others first. Desire little.
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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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Simple, like uncarved wood.
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When the world is ruled according to the Way, the ghosts lose their power. The ghosts do not really lose their power, but it is not used to harm people.
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Just as the value of a house lies in its location, The value of a mind lies in its depth, The value of giving lies in the presence of a generous spirit, The value of words lies in their reliability.
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Appetite for food and sex is nature.
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Great, it passes on (in constant flow).
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Make the small big and the few many.
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Everything in the universe is created from something, which in turn is created from nothing.
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When the sage stands above people, they are not oppressed. When he leads people, they are not obstructed. The world will exalt him and not grow tired of him.
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So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.