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Lao Tzu Quotes: 44

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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.
Tao Te Ching
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.
Tao Te Ching
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.
Tao Teh Ching
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.
Tao Te Ching
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
Tao Te Ching
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.
A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.
Tao Te Ching
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.
Tao Te Ching
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
Te Tao Ching
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.
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.
Tao Te Ching
Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.
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.
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.
The Teachings of Lao-Tzu: The Tao-Te Ching
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.
There isa time to liveand a time to diebut never to reject the moment.
The past has no power to stop youfrom being present now.Only your grievance aboutthe past can do that.What is grievance?The baggage of oldthought and emotion.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
When people see some things as beautiful,other things become ugly.When people see some things as good,other things become bad.
Tao Te Ching
He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.
Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.
In the end,The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on and gained by those who let go.
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.
The Chinese Translations
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
Tao Te Ching
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.
A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.
He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.
Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.
Tao Te Ching
If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.