Quotes from Tao Te Ching!!!

• 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.
• True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present.
• There is no greater illusion than fear, no greater wrong that preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.
• The more you know the less you understand.
• True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way. It can't be gained by interfering.
• The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be.
• The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be.
• The more subsidies you have, the less self-reliant people will be.
• Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.
• When there is no desire, all things are at peace.
• If you don't trust people, YOU make them untrustworthy.
• Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place.
• Hold onto the center.
• When they lose their sense of awe, people turn to religion.
• When they no longer trust themselves, they begin to depend upon authority.
• Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else there is no end to the blame.
• If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
• If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve.
• The world is sacred. It cannot be improved. If you tamper with it, you'll ruin it. If you treat it like an object, you'll lose it.
• True words seem paradoxical.

[Mad props to Missy for making me read her Tao te Ching book!]