Lao Tzu Quotes

Lao Tzu: “Amidst the worldly comings and goings, observe how endings become beginnings.”

Lao Tzu: “Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.” 

Lao Tzu: “He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.” 

Lao Tzu: “Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. ” 

Lao Tzu: “The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.”

Lao Tzu: “Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ” 

Lao Tzu: “The highest excellence is like water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving, the low place which all men dislike. ”

Lao Tzu: “When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.” 

Lao Tzu: “The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.” 

Lao Tzu: “In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle -- this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.”  

 

Lao Tzu: “Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profundity.
Kindness in giving creates love.”

Lao Tzu: “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ”