Saying of Lao Tzu

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

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

Those who know do not speak Those that speak do not know.

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

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

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

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

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

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.

The way to do is to be.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.

The Way of Heaven does not compete, And yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.

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

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Superior leaders get things done with very little motion. They impart instruction not through many words, but through a few deeds. They keep informed about everything but interfere hardly at all. They are catalysts, and though things would not get done as well if they were not there, when they succeed they take no credit. And, because they take no credit, credit never leaves them.

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