Lao Tzu on Mental Models Quotes

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

"Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures."

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."

"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe."

"The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be."

"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world."

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality."

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

"Act without expectation."

"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small."

"He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted."

"To lead people, walk behind them."

"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders."

"Great eloquence is like a stammer."

"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough."

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

"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."

"The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth."

"Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield."

"Great acts are made up of small deeds."

"If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to."

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."

"Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment."

"He who is contented is rich."

"When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready... The teacher will Disappear."

"Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires."

"The wise man is one who knows what he does not know."

"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go."

"We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want."

"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name."

"Silence is a source of great strength."