Quotes by Lao Tzu

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

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

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

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

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.