Lao Tzu Quotes

Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

As I get, I give. Giving as you get is critical. It has everything to do with being happy for yourself, and making others happy is the cause of making yourself happy, and it's the cycle of giving and getting.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Everything good that's ever happened to me came out of helping others.

For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower and lender both.

You have to give to be able to receive.

… what can be more honorable than gladly to acquiesce in the prosperity of all men?...

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

We believe in satisfying our own needs but always considering others.

Put others before yourself, unselfish love, do unto others as you would have done to you.

All that you give to others you are giving to yourself.

It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good

All that one gives to others one gives to one's self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

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

Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.

I'd sell my soul for a good cause.