A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Kindness in giving creates love.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

The well-run group is not a battlefield of egos.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready… The teacher will Disappear.

Love is a decision – not an emotion!

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

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

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.

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

At the center of your beingyou have the answer;you know who you areand you know what you want.

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

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.

Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish – don’t overdo it

He who is in harmony with the Taois like a newborn child.Its bones are soft, its muscles are weak,but its grip is powerful.It doesn’t know about the unionof male and female,yet its penis can stand...

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

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

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Know they thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is man.

One who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

The Way of Heaven does not compete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory.

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.

To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Some say that my teaching is nonsense.Other call it lofty but impractical.But to those who have looked inside themselves,this nonsense makes perfect sense.And to those who put it into practice,this loftiness has roots that go...

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

To have little is to possess.To have plenty is to be perplexed.

The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will...

To speak little is natural. Therefore a gale does not blow a whole morning nor does a downpour last a whole day.

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...

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

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

Existence is beyond the power of wordsTo define:Terms may be usedBut are none of them absolute.In the beginning of heaven and earth there were no words,Words came out of the womb of matter;And whether a...

The Master doesn’t try to be powerful; thus he is truly powerful. The ordinary man keeps reaching for power; thus he never has enough. The Master does nothing, yet he leaves nothing undone. The ordinary...

Countless words count less than the silent balance between yin and yang

Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy,...

From caring comes courage

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.