Kokthansogreta.nu – Tao Quotes

Silence is a source of great strength.

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

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

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

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

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.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.