The sage acts by doing nothing.
LAOZIAll men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
More Laozi Quotes
-
-
When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.
LAOZI -
Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose
LAOZI -
The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.
LAOZI -
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
LAOZI -
Wear down to be renewed.
LAOZI -
Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
LAOZI -
Return animosity with virtue.
LAOZI -
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
LAOZI -
Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
LAOZI -
…the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
LAOZI -
A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.
LAOZI -
Meet the big while it is small.
LAOZI -
. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.
LAOZI -
All action begins in rest… This is the ultimate truth.
LAOZI -
Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.
LAOZI