Quotes from Lao Tzu

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Friend, never fear dying. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a person has to be anxious about. Fear living, that is a hard battle to fight, a stern discipline to endure, a rough voyage to undergo ! Charles Spurgeon

He who knows enough is enough will always have enough.

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.

The best man is like water. Water is good it benefits all things and does not compete with them. It dwells in lowly places that all disdain. This is why it is so near to Tao.

The Eternal generates the One. The One generates the Two. The Two generates the Three. The Three generates all things.