Lao Tzu 21 Top Insightful Audio Quotes, Sayings: Victory, Power, Discipline, Anxiety, Depression

“ Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny. ” -Lao Tzu

“ If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve. ” -Lao Tzu

“ The higher the sun arises, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covets praise, yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors. ” -Lao Tzu

“ 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. ” -Lao Tzu

“ If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present. ” -Lao Tzu

“ When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready: The teacher will disappear. ” -Lao Tzu

“ Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found. ” -Lao Tzu

“ If you understand others you are smart. If you understand yourself you are illuminated. If you overcome others you are powerful. If you overcome yourself you have strength. If you know how to be satisfied you are rich. If you can act with vigor, you have a will. If you don’t lose your objectives you can be long-lasting. If you die without loss, you are eternal. ” -Lao Tzu

“ Colors blind the eye Sounds deafen the ear. Flavors numb the taste. Thoughts weaken the mind. Desires wither the heart. ” -Lao Tzu

“ Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here. ” -Lao Tzu

“ Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don’t see the self as self, what do we have to fear? ” -Lao Tzu

“ Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery follow a great victory. Do only what needs to be done without using violence. ” -Lao Tzu

“ The master observes the world but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. He prefers what is within to what is without. ” -Lao Tzu

“ To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay. ” -Lao Tzu

“ He who knows he has enough is rich. Perseverance is a sign of will power. He who stays where he is endures. To die but not to perish is to be eternally present. ” -Lao Tzu

“ Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ” -Lao Tzu

“ When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, there arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, there arises the recognition of evil. ” -Lao Tzu

“ Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows for a room; It is the hole which make it useful. Therefore benefit comes from what is there; Usefulness from what is not there. ” -Lao Tzu

“ To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health. ” -Lao Tzu

“ Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it. ” -Lao Tzu

“ Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.” -Lao Tzu