"The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates……" — Laozi

The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial,… - Laozi

"The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room..."

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1,065 Quotes by Laozi

Laozi has 1,065 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they…
Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.
He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall…
Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he…
He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the…
He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes…
Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have…
What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams…
Therefore, if a great kingdom humbles itself before a small kingdom, it shall make that small kingdom its prize. And…
The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know…
Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be…
The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he…

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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop… — Paul Auster
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just… — Paul Auster
Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that… — David Attenborough
Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in… — Bruce Babbitt
Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a… — Lynda Barry
Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again. — L. Frank Baum
If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing. — Ingrid Bergman
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be… — Alfred Adler
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again. — Erma Bombeck
I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and… — Bono
I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every… — Tony Campolo
The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if… — Nick Cave

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