Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.
Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.
The world is won by those who let it go.
Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.
Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.
Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.
If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.
The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.
Stop thinking, and end your problems.
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.
Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.
In the end, The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on and gained by those who let go
Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.
If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.
You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow.
If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.
The Tao is told is not the Tao.
Hear no evil. See no evil. Speak no evil.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Embrace simplicity. Put others first. Desire little.
When you let go of what you are, you become what you might be.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
Tao loves and nourishes all things, but does not dominate it over them.
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
If there is to be peace in the world, There must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations, There must be peace in the cities. If there is to be peace in the cities, There must be peace between neighbors. If there is to be peace between neighbors, There must be peace in the home. If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man.
Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.
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
If you can find true contentment, it will last forever.
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
The Tao principle is what happens of itself.
