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Lao Tzu Quotes

Total quotes: 23
“If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Tagged: Fulfillment, Contentment, Happiness, Achievement, Mottos
“Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings,
observe how endings become beginnings.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Tagged: Beginnings, unison, comings and goings, Endings, endings become beginnings
“Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.”
— Lao Tzu, A quote by Lao Tzu
Tagged: Compassion, kindness, Soft, Principle
“Love is a decision - not an emotion.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Tagged: Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Wisdom, Knowledge, Advice
“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”
— Lao Tzu, Care
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
— Lao Tzu, The Wisdom of Lao Tzu: A Taoist Guide to Getting Things Done
Tagged: Time, Time and Space, Nature, Life, taking your time, Inspirational
“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Tagged: Change
“The Master sees times as they are without trying to control them. She lets them go their own way and resides at the center of the circle.”
— Lao Tzu, Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
Tagged: Life, Stoic, Death
“If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Tagged: Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Wisdom, Knowledge, Advice, Aphorisms
“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, Tao Te Ching
Tagged: Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Wisdom, Knowledge, Advice
“A man with outward courage dares to die.
A man with inward courage dares to live.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Tagged: Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Wisdom, Knowledge, Advice
“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Tagged: Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Wisdom, Knowledge, Advice
“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, Tao Te Ching
Tagged: Life, Truth About Life, Truth About Being Human, Course Of Life
“Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Tagged: Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Wisdom, Knowledge, Advice
“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Tagged: true self, strength, true power
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
— Lao Tzu, Conscious Arrival
Tagged: Conscious Arrival, Nature, Hurrying
“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
— Lao Tzu, A Treasury of Wisdom
Tagged: Music, Lao Tzu
“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Tagged: Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Wisdom, Knowledge, Advice
“Give evil nothing to oppose
and it will disappear by itself.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Tagged: Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Wisdom, Knowledge, Advice
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Tagged: Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Wisdom, Knowledge, Advice
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Tagged: Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Wisdom, Knowledge, Advice
“When there is no desire,
all things are at peace.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Tagged: Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Wisdom, Knowledge, Advice
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