Quotes By Lao Tzu

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

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.

To lead people walk behind them.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

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.

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.

Silence is a source of great strength.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

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.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

From caring comes courage.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.