Lao Tzu Quotes
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Truly, only acting without thought of one's life is superior to valuing one's life.
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If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.
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The valley spirit never dies. It is called the mystical female.
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Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.
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Let the country be small, and the inhabitants few.
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The Tao is told is not the Tao.
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The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows the earth. Earth follows the universe. The universe follows the Tao. The Tao follows only itself.
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A good door needs no lock, still it can't be opened.
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Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.
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If you attach yourself to gross energies - loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another - then you will lead a series of heavy, attached lives. This can go on for a very long and tedious time.
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To be of few words is natural.
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He who treasures his body as much as the world can care for the world.
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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.
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Simple, like uncarved wood.
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Wise travelers always stop short before they come to danger.
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Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.
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Those who know others are intelligent Those who know themselves have insight. Those who master others have force Those who master themselves have strength.Those who know what is enough are wealthy. Those who persevere have direction. Those who maintain their position endure. And those who die and yet do not perish, live on.
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The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao.
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Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.
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Being is born of not being.
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To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely on one's own ability, To lead them, but not to master them - This is called profound and secret virtue.
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Water does not force its way.
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Do not strive for the shine of jade, but clatter like stone.