Lao Tzu

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#bowl #brim #fill #keep #knife

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#better #defective #does #duty #follow

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#further #goes #heaven #know #knows

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#beings #creative #great #heaven #indeed

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

— Lao Tzu

#overcome #softest #things #world

Nature is not human hearted. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#human #nature

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#predict #those #who

He who talks more is sooner exhausted. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#more #sooner #talks #who

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#more #nothing #resist #softer #than

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#flourish #nation #patriots #strife #then