All Laozi Quotes
- That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances. Hardest
- That which offers no resistance can enter where there is no space. Enter
- Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation? Any
- Nurture the spontaneous peaceful life. Life
- Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions. Action
- If you worry more for others' beliefs, then you will be their slave. Belief
- Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation. Force
- Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are. Accepting
- Having reached a high level of realization (or having accomplished anything in life), don't get excited or puffed up with pride but remain calm, humble,… Accomplished
- If good happens, good; if bad happens, good. Bad
- Praise of power leads to weakness; Love of things leads to loss; The wise one leads by filling people's hearts; He destroys illusion and disturbs… Believe
- ...the more you talk of it, the less you understand. Funny
- The Tao is like a well; used but never used up. Never Used
- Conduct your triumph as a funeral. Conduct
- The Tao which you know is not the eternal Tao Eternal
- When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster. Awe
- The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface. Dwells
- Attending fully and becoming supple, Can you be as a newborn babe? Attending
- Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue. Bearing
- It is fitting for a great nation to yield. Fitting
- What is a good man? A teacher of a bad man. What is a bad man? A good man's charge? Bad
- Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice. Choice
- I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness. Good
- Approach the universe with Tao, And evil will have no power. Not that evil is not powerful, But its power will not be used to… Approach
- Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight. Constancy