More quotes by Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.Patient with both friends and enemies,you accord with the way things are.Compassionate toward yourself,you reconcile all beings in the world."
"Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil."
"When people see some things as beautiful,other things become ugly.When people see some things as good,other things become bad."
"If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it."
"A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live."