Lao Tzu Quotes

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Born to be wild - live to outgrow it.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Such is the essential mystery.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one`s status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one`s inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.

Silence is a source of great strength.

The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Nature is not human hearted.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Fail to honor people,they fail to honor you; but of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, `We did this ourselves.`

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.