The Most Beautiful Quotes from Lao Tzu

• "Silence is a source of great strength."
• "Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner."
• "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
• "Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it."
• "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."
• "When the best leader’s work is done, the people say, ‘We did it ourselves.’"
• "Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing."
• "When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you."
• "To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day."
• "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."
• "I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures."
• "Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know."
• "The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long."
• "Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is like saying ‘I don’t want to.’"
• "The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth."
• "If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."
• "Music in the soul can be heard by the universe."
• "Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found."
• "To see things in the seed, that is genius."
• "What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly."