LAO TZU

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."

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

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes."

"Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are."

"Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being."

"Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world."

"The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth."

"The best fighter is never angry."

"A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live."

"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know."

"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."

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

"Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment."

"The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long."

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

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

"Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?"

"Act without expectation."

"The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know."

"If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it."

"Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing."

"Avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."

"To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day."

"Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing."

"By letting go it all gets done."

"Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself."

"The further one goes, the less one knows."

"If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve."

"What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly."

"Loss is not as bad as wanting more."

"To a mind that is still the whole universe surrenders."

"All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power."

"When there is no desire, all things are at peace."

"There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent."

"We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want."

"Because of a great love, one is courageous"

"“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened."

"Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here."

"As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it."

"If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place."

"The road you can talk about is not the road you can walk on."

"Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle."

"Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?"

"Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force."

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."