Lao Tzu Quotes

I don't wish ill will on anybody.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.

Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.

I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being …

Mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

I've never hurt a single person in my whole life - never even wanted to hurt someone.

Regrettably, the media are seemingly incapable of mentioning the words 'compassion' and 'Trump' in the same sentence.

Good people are always forgiving. They close an eye to one's failings.

Err in the direction of kindness.

If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.

Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.

I believe in sympathy, compassion and forgiveness.

What is called generosity is really compassion. In the Shin'ei it is written "Seen from the eye of compassion, there is noone to be disliked. One who has sinned is to be pitied all the more." There is no limit to the breadth and depth of ones heart. There is room enough for all. That we still worship the sages of the three ancient kingdoms is because their compassion reaches us yet today.