Lao Tzu Quotes

Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my druthers, it would never have been changed at all. What I learned from it is that today seems to be the hardest lesson of all. I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the world and to try to give some of it back because I believed in it completely and utterly.

Remember that you have a choice in what you see. If you choose to see a person's darkness, you strengthen your darkness within. If you choose to see their light, you shine from the inside out.

In season, all is good.

Don't ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you've spent a lot of time with it.

Beauty can be seen in all things.

If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.

And you know, I agree to everything: I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will be light and sin lovely.

Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

I can find something beautiful in everyone

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small.

What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao.

Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.

Do you want to improve the world? I don't think it can be done. The world is sacred. It can't be improved. If you tamper with it, you'll ruin it. If you treat it like an object, you'll lose it. There is a time for being ahead, a time for being behind; a time for being in motion, a time for being at rest; a time for being vigorous, a time for being exhausted; a time for being safe, a time for being in danger. The Master sees things as they are, without trying to control them. She lets them go their own way, and resides at the center of the circle.

Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.

The one who does not stray away from her/his nature will live long.

Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.

Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance.

Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.

Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can't be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures.

The struggle ends when gratitude begins.