565 Quotes by Laozi

He who controls the past controls the future.

When everyone in the world sees beauty, then ugly exists.

The sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade.

Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.

First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.

People aren’t against you; they are for themselves. The most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. He who conquers others is strong, he who conquers himself is mighty.

Returning to the source is serenity.