Lao Tzu

"To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it."

"Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy."

"We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness insidethat holds whatever we want.We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner spacethat makes it livable.We work with being, but non-being is what we use."

"Great acts are made up of small deeds."

"He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love."

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."

"Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here."

"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."

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

"We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness insidethat holds whatever we want.We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner spacethat makes it livable.We work with being, but non-being is what we use."

"In the end,The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on and gained by those who let go."

"Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing."

"As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it."

"He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love."

"So the unwanting soulsees what's hidden,and the ever-wanting soulsees only what it wants."

"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."

"We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness insidethat holds whatever we want.We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner spacethat makes it livable.We work with being, but non-being is what we use."

"There isa time to liveand a time to diebut never to reject the moment."

"Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it."

"If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees."