Wear down to be renewed.
LAOZIWear down to be renewed.
LAOZIStop thinking, and end your problems.
LAOZINo disaster is worse than being discontented.
LAOZIThe great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.
LAOZIMeet the difficult while it is easy.
LAOZIA foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.
LAOZIIn the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.
LAOZIHe who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.
LAOZIThe sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.
LAOZIFollow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.
LAOZITake [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.
LAOZINot praising the deserving prevents envy.
LAOZIThe world’s big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.
LAOZITo be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.
LAOZIThe sage acts by doing nothing.
LAOZIIn order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.
LAOZI