565 Quotes by Laozi

A good speaker does not stutter.

The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound of earth. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

The world is a sacred vessel that cannot be changed. He who changes it will destroy it. He who seizes it will lose it.

True power is stillness within motion.

Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.

He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.

Dualistic thinking is a sickness.

See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things.

Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.