Laozi

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Do you have the patience to wait
Till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
Till the right action arises by itself?

It is better to leave a vessel unfilled, than to attempt to carry it when it is full.

When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster.

The universe is deathless; Is deathless because, having no finite self, it stays infinite. A sound man by not advancing himself stays the further ahead of himself, By not confining himself to himself sustains himself outside himself: By never being an end in himself he endlessly becomes himself.

The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground
While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.

Aquél que obtiene una victoria sobre otro hombre es fuerte, pero quien obtiene una victoria sobre sí mismo es poderoso.

The highest excellence is like (that of) water.

Rushing into action, you fail.
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion,
you ruin what was almost ripe.

Therefore the Master takes action
by letting things take their course.
He remains as calm at the end
as at the beginning.
He has nothing,
thus has nothing to lose.
What he desires is non-desire;
what he learns is to unlearn.
He simply reminds people
of who they have always been.
He cares about nothing but the Tao.
Thus he can care for all things.

The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way.

Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.

"Тhe gentle overcomes the rigid.
The slow overcomes the fast.
The weak overcomes the strong."
…
"Everyone knows that the yielding overcomes the stiff,
and the soft overcomes the hard.
Yet no one applies this knowledge."

He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know.

Become totally empty
Quiet the restlessness of the mind
Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness

When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts.