Lao Tzu Quotes - Page 2

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

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

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

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of
softness overcoming hardness.

He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.

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

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

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

The heart that gives, gathers.

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

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.

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.

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Ist eine Lehre zur Satzung erstarrt, hat sie geendet.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

The past has no power to stop you
from being present now.
Only your grievance about
the past can do that.
What is grievance?
The baggage of old
thought and emotion.

Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.

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