More quotes by Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it."
"Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil."
"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."
"Knowing others is intelligence;knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."
"If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it."