Laozi
He who controls the past controls the future.Collection: Future
You will understand a great truth when you get to realize that what you do to others, you are doing to yourself.Collection: Realizing
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.Collection: Inspirational
One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.Collection: Believe
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.Collection: Motivational
A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.Collection: Wind
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.Collection: Life
No weapon is sharper than will.Collection: Weapons
If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.Collection: Spiritual
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.Collection: Cancer
Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.Collection: Art
Be content with an ordinary life.Collection: Ordinary
If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.Collection: Wisdom
For knowledge, add something every day. For wisdom....subtract.Collection: Add
From wonder into wonder existence opens.Collection: Inspirational
Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.Collection: Inspirational
Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.Collection: Weed
In the end, The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on and gained by those who let goCollection: Inspirational
The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledgeCollection: Real
Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.Collection: Peace
If you correct your mind the rest of your life will fall into place.Collection: Inspirational
Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.Collection: Wise
The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.Collection: Wise
Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way.Collection: Judging
Excellent warriors are not violent.Collection: Warrior
Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.Collection: Arrogance
Health is the greatest possession.Collection: Health
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.Collection: Leadership
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.Collection: Difficult And Easy
If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn!Collection: Show Me
Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. 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.Collection: Change
If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.Collection: Wise
All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.Collection: Taoism
Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love.Collection: Thinking
The biggest in the world is small in its beginning.Collection: Taoism
I have three treasures which I hold and keep. The first is mercy; the second is economy. The third is daring not to be ahead of others. From mercy comes courage; from economy comes generosity; From humility comes leadership.Collection: Humility
No disaster is worse than being discontented.Collection: Taoism
Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.Collection: Letting Go
The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.Collection: Teaching
Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.Collection: Family
Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.Collection: Patience
ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.Collection: Gratitude
Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.Collection: Success
Develop the strength of a man, but live as gently as a womanCollection: Men
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.Collection: Inspirational
Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.Collection: Tao Te Ching
One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.Collection: Inspirational
When family ties are disturbed, devoted children arise.Collection: Children