Quotes Category: Lao Tzu

watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?

The way to do is to be.

Stay in the center of the circle and let all things take their course.

Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

The best fighter is never angry.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

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.