#taoism

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

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

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

Act without expectation.

The unnamable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things.

Misfortune may conceal a blessing, just as fortune may harbor sorrow.

A journey of a thousand miles begins beneath your very feet.

He who is content with what he has is already the richest man in the province.

The mountain does not bow to the storm, yet it allows the white clouds to drape gently over its shoulders.

The bamboo bends before the howling wind, and so it survives the hurricane unbowed.

The water that carves through the canyon does so not through fury, but through unceasing persistence.

Governing a large household is like frying a delicate small fish: turn it too frequently and it falls apart.