Sayings And Quotes By Lao Tzu

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“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”
– Lao Tzu

“If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.”
– Lao Tzu

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
– Lao Tzu

“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.”
– Lao Tzu

“If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.”
– 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

“In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.”
– Lao Tzu

“It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.”
– Lao Tzu

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
– Lao Tzu

“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.”
– Lao Tzu

“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.”
– 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

“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”
– Lao Tzu

“Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.”
– Lao Tzu

“Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.”
– Lao Tzu

“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.”
– Lao Tzu

“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
– Lao Tzu

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
– Lao Tzu

“Nature is not human hearted.”
– Lao Tzu

“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.”
– Lao Tzu

“Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.”
– Lao Tzu

“One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.”
– Lao Tzu

“One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.”
– Lao Tzu

“People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.”
– Lao Tzu

“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.”
– Lao Tzu

“Silence is a source of great strength.”
– Lao Tzu

“Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.”
– Lao Tzu

“The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.”
– Lao Tzu

“The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.”
– Lao Tzu

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
– Lao Tzu

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