69 Quotes By Lao Tzu


Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu on love

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

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

Because of a great love, one is courageous.
Lao Tzu on love

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Lao Tzu on love

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
Lao Tzu on love

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Lao Tzu on men

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao Tzu on music

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu on nature

Nature is not human hearted.
Lao Tzu on nature

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
Lao Tzu on nature

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

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
Lao Tzu on peace

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu on power

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

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Lao Tzu on respect

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu on strength

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu on strength

Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu on strength

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline simulated fear postulates courage simulated weakness postulates strength.
Lao Tzu on strength