Lao Tzu Quotes
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Justice has long arm.
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A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.
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Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.
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Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
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The grandest virtue seems deficient.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
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Weapons are not proper instruments for gentle people; they use them only when they have no other choice. Peace and quiet are what they value. They do not glory in victory.
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He does not seek power - yet people follow him.
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Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
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Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.
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Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.
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The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.
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Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.
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Other people have more than they need, I alone seem wanting.
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The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.
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The surest test if a person be sane, is if she accepts life whole, as it is.
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Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.
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If you really want everything, then give up everything.
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He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.
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I do not know its name. I call it the Way. For the lack of better words I call it great.
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Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.
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The more you know the less you understand.
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When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king. Immersed in wonder, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.
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Allow your softer, more intuitive, and less dominating feminine qualities to rise to the fore, so that you're surrendering rather than dominating, receiving rather than broadcasting, loving rather than fighting.