Lao Tzu Quotes - Page 3

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

Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question.

The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.

The World has a First Cause, which may be regarded as the Mother of the World. When one has found the Mother, one can know the Child. Knowing the Child and still keeping the Mother, to the end of his days he shall suffer no harm.

Seeing our own smallness is called insight, honoring our own tenderness is called strenght.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

A leader is best
When people barely know he exists
Of a good leader, who talks little,
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
They will say, “We did this ourselves.

If you want to govern the people,
You must place yourself below them.
If you want to lead people,
You must learn how to follow them.

So the unwanting soul
sees what's hidden,
and the ever-wanting soul
sees only what it wants.