I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. – Lao Tzu
One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others. – Lao Tzu
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. – Lao Tzu
Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves. – Lao Tzu
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. – Lao Tzu
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. – Lao Tzu
The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours. – Lao Tzu
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. – Lao Tzu
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. – Lao Tzu
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. – Lao Tzu
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. – Lao Tzu