85 Lao Tzu Quotes on Life, Love and Happiness

Silence is a source of great strength.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

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

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

The master observes the world but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. He prefers what is within to what is without.

Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

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

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Those who know do not talk And talkers do not know.

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

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

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.

If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.