Lao Tzu quotes

There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.
Lao Tzu

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and
the senses.
Lao Tzu

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Lao Tzu

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
Lao Tzu

The best fighter is never angry.
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Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars.
This practice should answer the question.
Lao Tzu

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in
giving creates love.
Lao Tzu

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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Great acts are made up of small deeds.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for
a lifetime.
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If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Lao Tzu

Nature is not human-hearted.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
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To lead the people, walk behind them.
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Respond to anger with virtue. Deal with difficulties while they are still easy. Handle the great
while it is still small.
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There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is no greater disaster than greed.
Lao Tzu

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Lao Tzu

My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice. Yet your intellect will
never grasp them, and if you try to practice them, you'll fail. My teachings are older than the
world. How can you grasp their meaning? If you want to know me, look inside your heart.
Lao Tzu

If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him
with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his
wickedness.
Lao Tzu

Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when
an army passes. Years of misery follow a great victory. Do only what needs to be done
without using violence.
Lao Tzu

He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him and protect him with love.
Lao Tzu

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
Lao Tzu

If the people must be ever fearful of death, then there will always be an executioner.
Lao Tzu

Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline
and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy
toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward
into darkness.
Lao Tzu

Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose.
Lao Tzu

Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame.
Lao Tzu

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