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Lao Tzu Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Lao Tzu

To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu

Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
- Lao Tzu

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He who controls others may be powerful,
but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
- Lao Tzu

I confess that there is nothing to teach:
no religion, no science, no writings
which will lead your mind back to Spirit.
Today I speak this way, tomorrow that,
but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.
- Lao Tzu
(paraphrase)

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

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Be merciful, moderate, and modest.
- Lao Tzu

Simply see that you are at the center of the universe,
and accept all things and beings
as parts of your infinite body.
When you perceive that an act done to another
is done to yourself,
you have understood the great truth.
- Lao Tzu

He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu

 

Yielding is the way of the Tao.
- Lao Tzu

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

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

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

Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu

Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu

To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu

Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu

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

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)

Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu

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.
- Lao Tzu

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu

He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu

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.
- Lao Tzu

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

Be simply yourself and don't compare or compete.
- Lao Tzu

From caring comes courage.
- Lao Tzu

Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu

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

Be the chief but never the lord.
- Lao Tzu

Life and death are one thread,
the same line viewed from different sides.
- Lao Tzu

Without stirring abroad,
One can know the whole world;
Without looking out of the window,
One can see the way of heaven.
The further one goes, The less one knows.
- Lao Tzu

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
- Lao Tzu

Nature is not human hearted.
- Lao Tzu

Kindness Quotes and Sayings

Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

Today, I choose the higher road -
the path of charity, acceptance, love, selflessness, kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb

The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert

Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whatever you say, say with kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud

Our opportunity is to visualize a kinder world.
To sing glad songs of tomorrow -
imagining a world of love -
of the whole world filled with love.
To offer our hand... often.
To breathe deeply and honor ourselves.
To pause and contemplate... just because.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be kind whenever possible; and it is always possible.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb

Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous

The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous

Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb

What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Philo

Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling

There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca

Whether one believes in a religion or not,
and whether one believes in rebirth or not,
there isn't anyone who doesn't
appreciate kindness and compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

We all tend to measure our worth by what we DO -
the actions we take.
We also highly value what we SAY.
However, the greatest impact we have
on our family, our friends,
and our world is our kindness and love.
A bowl of soup served with love
is a greater gift than a steak dinner served brusquely.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good therefore that I can do,
or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature,
let me do it now.
Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.
- William Penn

Constant kindness can accomplish much.
As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer

People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet
as if they were going to be dead by midnight.
Extend to them all the care,
kindness and understanding you can muster,
and do with no thought of any reward.
Your life will never be the same again.
- Og Mandino

If I choose to bless another person,
I will always end up feeling more blessed.
- Marianne Williamson

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear,
and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
- Anonymous

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