Laozi

Someone who is too insistent in his own views finds few to agree with him.

Laozi

Something can be beautiful, if something else is ugly. Someone can be good, if someone else is bad.

Laozi

Sometimes you must yield in order to win, and sometimes maintaining a low place leads you to win.

Laozi

Stay at the center and let all things take their course.

Laozi

Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.

Laozi

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.

Laozi

Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is close to the Way.

Laozi

Taking things lightly must lead to big difficulties.

Laozi

That so few understand me is why I am treasured.

Laozi

That which is achieved the most, still has the whole of its future yet to be achieved.

Laozi