Lao Tzu Quotes

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

~ Lao Tzu

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.

~ Lao Tzu

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.

~ Lao Tzu

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.

~ Lao Tzu

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

~ Lao Tzu

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.

~ Lao Tzu

A man with outward courage dares to die, a man with inner courage dares to live.

~ Lao Tzu

If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.

~ Lao Tzu

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

~ Lao Tzu

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

~ Lao Tzu

When people see some things as beautiful,other things become ugly.When people see some things as good,other things become bad.

~ Lao Tzu

There isa time to liveand a time to diebut never to reject the moment.

~ Lao Tzu

Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

~ Lao Tzu

There is no illusion greater than fear.

~ Lao Tzu

He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.

~ Lao Tzu

Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

~ Lao Tzu

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.

~ Lao Tzu

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

~ Lao Tzu

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

~ Lao Tzu

As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

~ Lao Tzu

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.

~ Lao Tzu

He who is in harmony with the Taois like a newborn child.Its bones are soft, its muscles are weak,but its grip is powerful.It doesn't know about the unionof male and female,yet its penis can stand erect,so intense is its vital power.It can scream its head off all day,yet it never becomes hoarse,so complete is its harmony.The Master's power is like this.He lets all things come and goeffortlessly, without desire.He never expects results;thus he is never disappointed.He is never disappointed;thus his spirit never grows old.

~ Lao Tzu

(So), he who displays himself does not shine; he who asserts his own views is not distinguished; he who vaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged; he who is self-conceited has no superiority allowed to him.

~ Lao Tzu

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

~ Lao Tzu

If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

~ Lao Tzu

Knowing others is intelligence,knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

~ Lao Tzu

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

~ Lao Tzu

A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

~ Lao Tzu

The heart that gives, gathers.

~ Lao Tzu

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

~ Lao Tzu

A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. If, when you see the symptoms, you can tell, Your cure is quick.A sound man knows that sickness makes him sick and before he catches it his cure is quick.

~ Lao Tzu

Ist eine Lehre zur Satzung erstarrt, hat sie geendet.

~ Lao Tzu

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.

~ Lao Tzu

In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is acquired. In pursuit of wisdom, every day something is dropped.

~ Lao Tzu

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth. The named is the mother of ten thousand things. Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gate to all mystery.

~ Lao Tzu

...the mind is just as immeasurable as the vast universe. An integral being settles his mind just as the vast universe settles itself. He unites his mind with the unnameable Subtle Origin of the multi-universe in which there is no past, present or future. This is how an integral being deals with his mind.

~ Lao Tzu

Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.

~ Lao Tzu

A leader is bestWhen people barely know he existsOf a good leader, who talks little,When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,They will say, “We did this ourselves.

~ Lao Tzu

If you want to govern the people,You must place yourself below them.If you want to lead people,You must learn how to follow them.

~ Lao Tzu

Thirty spokesShare one hub.Make the nothing therein appropriate, and you will have the use of the cart.

~ Lao Tzu