Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier? — Laozi Copy Share Image
If Heaven were not clear it might rend. If Earth were not firm it might crumble. — Laozi Copy Share Image
I alone am different from the others, because I am nourished by the great mother. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long. — Laozi Copy Share Image
When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The Master observes the world, but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. His heart is as open… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not… — Laozi Copy Share Image
There is no greater fault than sensual indulgence. There is no greater misfortune than malcontent. There is no greater calamity than greed. — Laozi Copy Share Image
I do not know its name. I call it the Way. For the lack of better words I call it great. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end. — Laozi Copy Share Image
What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“[T]here is some other way of understanding and getting along with the process of nature than by translating it into words. After… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“It’s not that the Dude believes in nothing—he’s no nihilist. It’s just that he entertains ideas so gingerly. Since he’s never angling… — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
It's either good, bad or somewhere in between. It's either ying, yang or it's a combination. You're either male, female or somewhere… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is much meaning in the word endure. For example, when dealing with unstable human feelings and uneven pathways in life, without… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
The I Ching tells us that for every ending there is a new beginning. In other words, what appears like a transition… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Even a wild horse can be tamed; even metal that is difficult to work eventually goes into a mold. If you take… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
When you are but slightly involved in the world, the effect the world has on you is also slight. When you are… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
The more sharp weapons people have in a country, the bigger the disorder will be. — Laozi Copy Share Image
We can say the stars are moving because we have a relative context. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love the whole world as if it were your self; then you will truly care for all things. — Laozi Copy Share Image
All things in the world are born out of being. Being is born out of non-being. — Laozi Copy Share Image