"We hammer wood for a house, but it……" — Laozi

"We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable."

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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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More Hammer Quotes

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I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. — Bernard Baruch
I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars. — Adam Carolla
In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff.… — Adam Carolla
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is… — Mahatma Gandhi
A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I… — Arthur Tappan Pierson
Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. — Abraham Kaplan
I got the Hammer money, sweetie you can't touch this. — Drake
An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue. — Ambrose Bierce
Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly. — John Ray

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