Lao Tzu Quotes

"Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it."

"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures."

"To see things in the seed, that is genius."

"For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance."

"To perceive things in the germ is intelligence"

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

"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders."

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."

"Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge."

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

"Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy."

"He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted."

"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."

"To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty."

"Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status."

"Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone."

"The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself."

"Kindness in giving creates love."

"Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself."

"Fail to honor people,they fail to honor you; but of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, 'We did this ourselves.'"