All Laozi Quotes
- Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy. Anticipate
- Kind words elicit trust. Kind thoughts create depth. Kind deeds bring love. Bring
- When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow… Appears
- Deal with it before it happens. Set things in order before there is confusion. Confusion
- Yield and overcome; Bend and be straight; Empty and be full; Wear out and be new; Have little and gain; Have much and be confused.… All
- Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes. Becomes
- Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good. Beautiful
- Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. All
- A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing nothing is lost Business
- You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow. Cannot Receive
- The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or… All
- The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets… Act
- 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… Abroad
- There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war. Calamity
- In work, do what you enjoy. Enjoy
- Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next… Accomplished
- The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle with it you… Future
- Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and… All
- Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego. Conditions
- Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like… Disgrace