Lao Tzu

There is no fault greater than the wish to be getting #laotzu

The more the sage expends for others, the more does he possess of his own. The more he gives to others, the more does he have himself.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

It is the way of Heaven not to strive, and yet it skilfully overcomes; not to speak, and yet it is skilful in obtaining a reply

If everybody knows what productivity is, then productivity is not productivity anymore.

A violent wind doesn't last for a whole morning; a sudden rain doesn't last for the whole day. To whom is it that these things are owing?

It is the way of the Tao to act without thinking of acting; to conduct affairs without feeling the trouble of them

Fame or life, which do you hold more dear? Or life or wealth, to which would you adhere? #wuwei

Who is content needs fear no shame

She who devotes herself to learning seeks to increase her knowledge; she who devotes herself to the Tao seeks to diminish her doing.

Every one in the world knows that the soft overcomes the hard, and the weak the strong, but no one is able to carry it out in practice.

Who knows to stop incurs no blame

Mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness.

The soft overcomes the hard; and the weak the strong. #yang

The violent and strong do not die their natural death. I will make this the basis of my teaching. #yin

I will manifest no ambition, and the people will of themselves attain to the primitive simplicity.

Woman takes her law from Earth; Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is

sharp weapons are instruments of evil omen, and not the instruments of the superior man;--he uses them only on the compulsion of necessity

The Tao is like a well: used but never used up

All men have their spheres of action, while I alone seem dull and incapable.