565 Quotes by Laozi

My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice. Yet your intellect will never grasp them, and if you try to practice them, you’ll fail. My teachings are older than the world. How can you grasp their meaning? If you want to know me, look inside your heart.

Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life? To an integral being, there is no such distinction.

Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby?

Life is going forth; death is returning home.

Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.

Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.

Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is known and feared; the worst government is hated.

The highest truth cannot be put into words.

The highest virtue does nothing. Yet, nothing needs to be done. The lowest virtue does everything. Yet, much remains to be done.