Lao Tzu Quotes
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The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning.
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Every step is on the path.
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Justice has long arm.
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He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.
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Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.
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Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.
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Because he is a living divinity, when he acts, the universe acts.
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My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.
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Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.
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One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.
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If you can find true contentment, it will last forever.
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Good leaders reach solutions, and then stop. They do not dare to rely on force.
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The Tao is infinite, eternal. Why is it eternal? It was never born; thus it can never die. Why is it infinite? It has no desires for itself; thus it is present for all beings. The Master stays behind; that is why she is ahead. She is detached from all things; that is why she is one with them. Because she has let go of herself, she is perfectly fulfilled.
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What's the difference between beautiful and ugly?
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Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.
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If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.
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The liberation cannot be reached but by means of the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the universal spirit.
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Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
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Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.
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The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.
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Without going outside, you may know the whole world!
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Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and names, before heaven and earth, before the ten thousand things. It is the unlimited father and mother of all limited things. Therefore, to see beyond boundaries to the subtle heart of things, dispense with names, with concepts, with expectations and ambitions and differences. Tao and its many manifestations arise from the same source: subtle wonder within mysterious darkness. This is the beginning of all understanding.
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Being a model to the world, eternal virtue will never falter in you, and you return to the boundless.
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True words seem false.