The most beautiful quotes from Lao Tzu

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