Lao Tzu Quotes
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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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Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.
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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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Appetite for food and sex is nature.
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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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By compassion one can be brave.
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The world's beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.
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The highest tone is hard to hear.
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He who knows enough is enough will always have enough.
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Confidence is the greatest friend.
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By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.
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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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There is no greater crime than desire.
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Justice has long arm.
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If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
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Those who have the courage to dare will perish. Those who have the courage not to dare will live.
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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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Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
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Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.
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Lightly given promises must meet with little trust.
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Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.
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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.
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If you really want everything, then give up everything.
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Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there is no self and other, and hence no one to be raised; no heaven and hell, and hence no destination.