Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
LAO TZUThe snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
More Lao Tzu Quotes
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Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
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One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.
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If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.
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Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.
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When goodness is lost there is morality.
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Loss is not as bad as wanting more.
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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.
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When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.
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Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don’t see the self as self, what do we have to fear?
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Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.
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If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
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A great nation is like a great man: When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.
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“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
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If you are untrustworthy, people will not trust you.
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The road you can talk about is not the road you can walk on.
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
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Because of a great love, one is courageous
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New Beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.
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