Lao Tzu
65 quotes
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
"Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses."
"Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.Patient with both friends and enemies,you accord with the way things are.Compassionate toward yourself,you reconcile all beings in the world."
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
"Knowing others is intelligence;knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."
"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."
"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."
"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know."
"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you."
"The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth."
"A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live."
"If you understand others you are smart.If you understand yourself you are illuminated.If you overcome others you are powerful.If you overcome yourself you have strength.If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.If you can act with vigor, you have a will.If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting.If you die without loss, you are eternal."
"The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long."
"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders."
"To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it."
"Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle ofsoftness overcoming hardness."
"Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it."
"If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it."
"Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing."
"Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here."
"So the unwanting soulsees what's hidden,and the ever-wanting soulsees only what it wants."
"LoveEmbracing Tao, you become embraced.Supple, breathing gently, you become reborn.Clearing your vision, you become clear.Nurturing your beloved, you become impartial.Opening your heart, you become accepted.Accepting the World, you embrace Tao.Bearing and nurturing,Creating but not owning,Giving without demanding,Controlling without authority,This is love."
"We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness insidethat holds whatever we want.We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner spacethat makes it livable.We work with being, but non-being is what we use."
"The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms."
"As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it."