Lao Tzu Quotes
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One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.
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The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.
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By compassion one can be brave.
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He who knows he has enough is rich.
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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.
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Good leaders reach solutions, and then stop. They do not dare to rely on force.
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Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness.
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Those who stay where they are will endure.
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Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.
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Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.
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There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart.
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The Way is ever without action, yet nothing is left undone.
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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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All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.
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Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is close to the Way.
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Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.
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All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.
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Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.
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There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being; For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be.
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. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.