Lao Tzu

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will…

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

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it…

Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive…

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

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all…

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your…

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a…

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do…

To know yet to think that one does not know is best Not to know…

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves…

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil…

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge…

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

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart…