Quotes from Lao Tzu

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.

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

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

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

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

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

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

He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise.

I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:The first is deep love,The second is frugality,And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world.Because of deep love, one is courageous.Because of frugality, one is generous.Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

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.

When armies are mobilized and issues joined,The man who is sorry over the fact will win.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.