“Respond to anger with virtue. Deal with difficulties while they are still easy. Handle the great while it is still small.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness
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.
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
The Tao is nowhere to be found. Yet it nourishes and completes all things.
When men lost their understanding of the Tao, intelligence came along, bringing hypocrisy with it.
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.
Become totally empty. Quiet the restlessness of the mind only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness.
To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.
If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.
Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.
If you want to lead them you must place yourself behind them.
Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.
He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.