565 Quotes by Laozi

The Master observes the world, but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. His heart is as open as the sky.

Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place.

Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

Heaven’s Way gives no favors. It always remains with good people.

Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.

The sage acts by doing nothing.

We go from birth to death. Three out of ten follow life. Three out of ten follow death. People who rush from birth to death are also three out of ten. Why is that so? Because they want to make too much of life.

Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.

There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart.