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20 Powerful Philosophy Quotes of "Lao Tzu"

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

- Lao Tzu
2. "The best fighter is never angry."

- Lao Tzu
3. "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."

- Lao Tzu
4. "Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are greatest treasures. Simple in thoughts, u return to source of being.

Patient with both friends & enemies, u accord with the way things are.

Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in world."

- Lao Tzu
5. "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."

- Lao Tzu
6. "Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is like saying, 'I don't want to."

- Lao Tzu
7. "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."

- Lao Tzu
8. "Silence is a source of Great Strength."

- Lao Tzu
9. "Kindness in words creates confidence.

Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love."

- Lao Tzu
10. "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."

- Lao Tzu
11. "Knowing others is intelligence;

Knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength;

Mastering yourself is true power."

- Lao Tzu
12. "You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow."

- Lao Tzu
13. "One who believes in himself has no need to convince others."

- Lao Tzu
14. "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."

- Lao Tzu
15. "Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear.

Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself."

- Lao Tzu
16. "What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion."

- Lao Tzu
17. "Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing."

- Lao Tzu
18. "Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know."

- Lao Tzu
19. "At the center of your being you have the answer;

You know who you are and you know what you want."

- Lao Tzu
20. "The past has no power to stop you from being present now.

Only your grievance about the past can do that.

What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion."

- Lao Tzu
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