Lao Tzu

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

"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present."

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

"A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding."

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

"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."

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

"The past has no power to stop youfrom being present now.Only your grievance aboutthe past can do that.What is grievance?The baggage of oldthought and emotion."

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

"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders."

"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."

"Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity."

"Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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