The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within… — Laozi Copy Share Image
A journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step - Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them? — Laozi Copy Share Image
The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become. The sharper men's weapons, The more trouble in the land. — Laozi Copy Share Image
People are hard to govern. The rulers interfere with too much. That is why people are hard to govern. — Laozi Copy Share Image
The more sharp weapons people have in a country, the bigger the disorder will be. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Praise of power leads to weakness; Love of things leads to loss; The wise one leads by filling people's hearts; He destroys… — Laozi Copy Share Image
When the sage stands above people, they are not oppressed. When he leads people, they are not obstructed. The world will exalt… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could… — Laozi Copy Share Image
A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
People aren't against you; they are for themselves. The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not… — Laozi Copy Share Image
If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's… — Laozi Copy Share Image
To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be before the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The Tao never does anything, yet through it all things are done. If powerful men and women could venter themselves in it,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
She who is centered in the Tao can go where she wishes, without danger. She perceives the universal harmony, even amid great… — Laozi Copy Share Image
A skillful commander is not overbearing. A skillful fighter does not become angry. A skillful conqueror does not compete with people. One… — Laozi Copy Share Image
If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The Way is the source of all things, good people's treasure and bad people's refuge. — Laozi Copy Share Image
I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness. — Laozi Copy Share Image
My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me. — Laozi Copy Share Image
I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves. — Laozi Copy Share Image
When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally. — Laozi Copy Share Image
The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Why do the people think so little of death? Because the rulers demand too much of life. Therefore the people take death… — Laozi Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant. — Laozi Copy Share Image
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse… — Laozi Copy Share Image
If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare? — Laozi Copy Share Image
People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve. — Laozi Copy Share Image
When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Throw away sacredness and wisdom and people will be one hundred times happier. — Laozi Copy Share Image
When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven. — Laozi Copy Share
If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow… — Laozi Copy Share
He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that… — Laozi Copy Share
Do nondoing, strive for nonstriving, savor the flavorless, regard the small as important, make much of little, repay enmity with virtue; plan for difficulty… — Laozi Copy Share
Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short… — Laozi Copy Share
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share
He (the sage) is good to those who are good. He is also good to those who are not good. That is the virtue… — Laozi Copy Share
There is a thing inherent and natural which existed before heaven and earth. Motionless and fathomless, It stands alone and never changes; It pervades… — Laozi Copy Share
What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you do not… — Laozi Copy Share
