565 Quotes by Laozi

The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.

Use your light, but dim your brightness.

Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent non aggressiveness.

The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.

Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune.

The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.