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Lao Tzu Quotes About Love

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

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

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Lao Tzu Quotes About Strength

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Silence is a source of great strength.

More Quotes by Lao Tzu

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

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.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

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

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

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

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

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

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

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

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.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

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.

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

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

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

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.

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.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

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

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

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.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

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

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

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

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

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

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

When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves."

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

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.

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