Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Votes: 13
To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness. Votes: 6
Be the chief but never the lord. Votes: 6
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. Votes: 0
He who knows himself is enlightened. Votes: 0
A good runner leaves no footprints. Votes: 0
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. Votes: 0
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. Votes: 0
Health is the greatest possession. Votes: 0
In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man. Votes: 0
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. Votes: 0
One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others. Votes: 0
Too much success is not an advantage. Do not tinkle like jade Or clatter like stone chimes. Votes: 0
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Votes: 0
Peace and quiet govern the world. Votes: 0
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. Votes: 0
The Tao is told is not the Tao. Votes: 0
Seeing the small is called clarity. Votes: 0
It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists. Votes: 0
The unyielding army will not win. Votes: 0
To be worn out is to be renewed. Votes: 0
A good counter needs no calculator. Votes: 0
A good speaker does not stutter. Votes: 0
A good wanderer leaves no trace. Votes: 0
Act without expectation. Votes: 0
All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power. Votes: 0
All things carry yin and embrace yang. They reach harmony by blending with the vital breath. Votes: 0
An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing. Votes: 0
Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend. Votes: 0
Appetite for food and sex is nature. Votes: 0
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. Votes: 0
Be content with an ordinary life. Votes: 0
Be merciful, moderate, and modest. Votes: 0
Before healing others, heal yourself Votes: 0
Behave simply and hold on to purity. Votes: 0
Being is born of not being. Votes: 0
Build up virtue, and you master all. Votes: 0
By compassion one can be brave. Votes: 0
By letting go, it all gets done. Votes: 0
Conduct your triumph as a funeral. Votes: 0
Confidence is the greatest friend. Votes: 0
Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long. Votes: 0
Dignified, like a guest. Votes: 0
Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes. Votes: 0
Do you think you can make the world a better place? I do not think you can. It is already perfect. Votes: 0
Dualistic thinking is a sickness. Votes: 0
Empty your mind of all thoughts. Votes: 0
Every step is on the path. Votes: 0
Everything in the universe is created from something, which in turn is created from nothing. Votes: 0
Excellent conquerors do not engage. Votes: 0
Excellent soldiers are not furious. Votes: 0
Excellent warriors are not violent. Votes: 0
Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big. Votes: 0
Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them? Votes: 0
First and last follow each other. Votes: 0
Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations. Votes: 0
From caring comes courage. Votes: 0
From now back to antiquity, its (Tao's) name has not been lost. Thereby, see the origin of all. Votes: 0
Going forward seems like retreat ... Votes: 0
Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men. Votes: 0
He who hoards much loses much. Votes: 0
He who is able to conquer others is powerful; he who is able to conquer himself is more powerful. Votes: 0
He who is contented is rich. Votes: 0
He who knows he has enough is rich. Votes: 0
He who steals a hook shall be hanged; while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince. Votes: 0
Heavy is the root of light. Votes: 0
High and low rest on each other. Votes: 0
If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn! Votes: 0
In the end, The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on and gained by those who let go Votes: 0
In work, do what you enjoy. Votes: 0
It is hidden but always present. Votes: 0
It is wealth to be content. Votes: 0
Its name-what passes not away; Votes: 0
Justice has long arm. Votes: 0
Kindness in giving creates love. Votes: 0
Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness. Votes: 0
Learn from the people. Plan with the people. Begin with what they have. Build on what they know. Votes: 0
Life and death are one thread... Votes: 0
Loss is not as bad as wanting more. Votes: 0
Make the small big and the few many. Votes: 0
Meandering leads to perfection. Votes: 0
Meet the big while it is small. Votes: 0
Meet the difficult while it is easy. Votes: 0
Movement overcomes cold. Votes: 0
Must one dread what others dread? Votes: 0
Nature does not have to insist. Votes: 0
Nature doesn't make long speeches. Votes: 0
Nature is not anthropomorphic. Votes: 0
Nature is not human hearted. Votes: 0
No weapon is sharper than will. Votes: 0
Not valuing wealth prevents theft. Votes: 0
Nothing is weaker than water, Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong, Nothing surpasses it. Votes: 0
Obscure, like muddy waters. Votes: 0
Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone. Votes: 0
People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly. Votes: 0
Praise and disgrace cause fear. Votes: 0
Prepare while it's easy. Votes: 0
Pursue without interfering. Votes: 0
Requite injury with kindness. Votes: 0
Return animosity with virtue. Votes: 0
Returning to the source is serenity. Votes: 0
Simple, like uncarved wood. Votes: 0
So the unwanting soul sees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants. Votes: 0
Spokes unite in the hub of a wheel. Votes: 0
Stillness is easy to maintain. Votes: 0
Stillness is the ruler of haste. Votes: 0
Stillness overcomes heat. Votes: 0
Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself. Votes: 0
The ancients said: Hulk to be whole. Votes: 0
The best fighter is never angry. Votes: 0
The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him. Votes: 0
The brittle is easy to shatter. Votes: 0
The grandest virtue seems deficient. Votes: 0
The great image lacks shape. Votes: 0
The greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries. Votes: 0
The high must make the low its base. Votes: 0
The highest tone is hard to hear. Votes: 0
The light of the Way seems dim. Votes: 0
The most able seems clumsy. Votes: 0
The most eloquent seems to stutter. Votes: 0
The most fundamental seems fickle. Votes: 0
The most straight seems curved. Votes: 0
The perfect square lacks corners. Votes: 0
The purest white seems stained. Votes: 0
The real is empty and the empty real Votes: 0
The rigid tree will be felled. Votes: 0
The sage acts by doing nothing. Votes: 0
The sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose. Votes: 0
The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself. Votes: 0
The separate parts make no carriage. Votes: 0
The small is easy to scatter. Votes: 0
The sturdiest virtue seems fragile. Votes: 0
The Tao's principle is spontaneity. Votes: 0
The truest sayings are paradoxical. Votes: 0
The truth often sounds paradoxical. Votes: 0
The Way is ever nameless. Votes: 0
The Way to do is to be. Votes: 0
The wise man knows he doesn't know. Votes: 0
The words of truth are always paradoxical. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. Votes: 0
Those who boast are not respected. Votes: 0
Those who have the courage to dare will perish. Those who have the courage not to dare will live. Votes: 0
Those who show off do not shine. Votes: 0
Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken. Votes: 0
To be of few words is natural. Votes: 0
To have little is to possess. Votes: 0
To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease. Votes: 0
To lead people, walk behind them. Votes: 0
To lead, one must follow. Votes: 0
To the good I would be good; to the not-good I would also be good, in order to make them good. Votes: 0
True words are not fancy. Fancy words are not true. The good do not debate. Debaters are not good. Votes: 0
True words seem false. Votes: 0
Truth sounds paradoxical! Votes: 0
Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle. Votes: 0
Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world. Votes: 0
Use the light to return to clarity. Votes: 0
Wary, as if surrounded by strangers. Votes: 0
Wear down to be renewed. Votes: 0
What is strong and rigid is snapped and laid low. What is flexible and soft will always prevail. Votes: 0
What resists, persists. Votes: 0
When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will always win. Votes: 0
When the palace is magnificent, the fields are filled with weeds, and the granaries are empty. Votes: 0
Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action? Votes: 0
Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious. Votes: 0
Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao. Votes: 0
Yielding is the manner of the Way. Votes: 0
Yielding is the way of the Tao. Votes: 0
Thirty spokes meet in the hub, Votes: 0
By moderation one can be generous. Votes: 0
Peace is our natural state of being. Votes: 0
Gain or loss, what is worse? Votes: 0
Bend and you will be straight. Votes: 0
Water does not force its way. Votes: 0
Yielding, like ice about to melt. Votes: 0
Words have divided man from woman, Votes: 0