Quotes from Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.

A leader is bestWhen people barely know he existsOf a good leader, who talks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, They will say, "We did this ourselves.

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly.When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

Thirty spokesShare one hub.Make the nothing therein appropriate, and you will have the use of the cart.

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

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.

If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

The heart that gives, gathers.

Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves.

Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'

To conquer others is to have power. To conquer yourself is to know the way.