565 Quotes by Laozi

The highest benevolence acts without purpose.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

The wise man doesn’t compete; therefore nobody can compete with him.

A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

When you are sick of your sickness you will cease to be sick.

That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.

Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?