Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Laozi Quotes - Page 29

All Quotes Acceptance Accomplishment Achievement Acting Age Ambition Appreciation Army Art Attitude Authority Awareness Balance Beauty Being Strong Being Yourself Birth Business Change Chaos Character Children Choices Clarity Communication Compassion Competition Confidence Conflict Confusion Contentment Cooking Country Courage Darkness Death Design Desire Destiny Determination Difficulty Diversity Dying Earth Education Effort Ego Emptiness Encouraging Energy Enlightenment Eternity Evil Expectations Failing Failure Fear Feelings Funeral Generosity Giving Giving Up Goodness Greatness Greed Happiness Hard Times Harmony Hate Health Heart Heaven Helping Others Home Honor House Humanity Humility Hunting Hypocrisy Identity Ignorance Illness Injury Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Intuition Journey Joy Judging Justice Kindness Knowledge Laughter Leadership Learning Leaving Letting Go Liberty Life Life And Death Life And Love Listening Losing Loss Love Lying Management Martial Arts Meditation Mindfulness Moderation Money Morality Morning Motivation Motivational Mountain Nature Opportunity Overcoming Passion Past Patience Peace Perception Perfection Perseverance Philosophy Politics Positive Positivity Pot Power Praise Pride Quality Rain Reality Righteousness Risk Running Self Confidence Self Esteem Serenity Sickness Silence Simplicity Sin Sorrow Soul Spirituality Spring Stay Strong Strength Struggle Success Suffering Surrender Take Care Taoism Taxes Teaching Time Transformation Travel Truth Understanding Unity Universe Values Victory Violence Virtue Vision Waiting War Water Weakness Wealth Weed Winning Wisdom Work Worry Writing Yoga

When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy.

When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy, Cleverness

Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.27, Chinese University Press

The Way of Tao is this: It strives not, but conquers; It speaks not, but all is made clear; It summons not, but its house is crowded; It contrives not, but the design is perfect.

Perfect, House, Design

The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings. He knows that he is going to die, and her has nothing left to hold on to: no illusions in his mind, no resistances in his body. He doesn't think about his actions; they flow from the core of his being. He holds nothing back from life; therefore he is ready for death, as a man is ready for sleep after a good day's work.

Life, Sleep, Good Day

Praise and disgrace cause fear.

Taoism, Causes, Praise

He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes and kings in speaking of themselves use the terms "lonely," "friendless," "of small account." Is not this making humility their base?

Lonely, Kings, Humility

A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot.

Men, Tree, Taoism

Behave simply and hold on to purity.

Taoism, Purity, Behave

Other people have more than they need, I alone seem wanting.

Compassion, People, Taoism

Activity conquers coldness. Stillness conquers heat.

Heat, Conquer, Activity

He who stands on tiptoe is not steady. He who strides cannot maintain the pace. He who makes a show is not enlightened. He who is self-righteous is not respected. He who boasts achieves nothing. He who brags will not endure. According to followers of the Tao, "These are extra food and unnecessary luggage." They do not bring happiness, therefore followers of the Tao avoid them.

Self, Pace, Followers

Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

Life, Track, Speech

The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.

Strong, Taoism, Overcoming

Those who are one with deprivation are deprived of deprivation.

Taoism, Deprivation, Deprived

He does not struggle with anyone - thus no one can vanquish him.

Philosophy, Struggle, Doe

Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.

Knowledge, Long, People

Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings.

Inspirational, Helping Others, Light

The universe is deathless; Is deathless because, having no finite self, it stays infinite. A sound man by not advancing himself stays the further ahead of himself, By not confining himself to himself sustains himself outside himself: By never being an end in himself he endlessly becomes himself.

Men, Self, Sound

"Tao Te Ching". Book by Laozi (Ch. 7), 4th century BC.

Meandering leads to perfection.

Journey, Hiking, Perfection

There is no greater fault than sensual indulgence. There is no greater misfortune than malcontent. There is no greater calamity than greed.

Greed, Taoism, Greater

"Lao Tze's Tao Teh King: The Bible of Taoism".

I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.

Home, Compassion, Taoism

If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve. He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire, and creates confusion in those who think that they know. Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place.

Fall, Ambition, Men

To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.

Attachment, Mind, Spiritual Transformation

Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.

Humble, Pride, Three

The more you know the less you understand.

Spiritual, Mlm, Tao Te Ching

When the highest type of people hear Tao (Truth), they diligently practice it. When the average type of people hear Tao, they half believe in it. When the lowest type of people hear Tao, they laugh at it. If they did not laugh, it would not be Tao.

Believe, Average, Practice

You May Also Like: