Laozi
(58 quotes)
Thursday May 18, 2023
Laozi: The best leader
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.
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
Laozi: A decent person
How could a decent person ever rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men.
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
Laozi: The Snow Goose
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Laozi: Understanding or not understanding
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
Wednesday Feb 8, 2023
Laozi: How to succeed
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.
Tuesday Dec 6, 2022
Laozi: The teachings
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
Laozi: Intuitive understanding
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Laozi: The difficult and the easy
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.
Friday Oct 28, 2022
Laozi: The true person
The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.
Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
Laozi: Your greatest treasures
Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.
Friday Sep 16, 2022
Laozi: You have got the answer
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Laozi: Correct your mind
If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.
Monday Oct 11, 2021
Laozi: The key to our growth
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
Friday Sep 24, 2021
Laozi: Internal Peace
One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
Monday Aug 23, 2021
Laozi: Do you know yourself?
Knowing others is wisdom,
knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Thursday Aug 5, 2021
Laozi: The leaders
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Friday Jul 23, 2021
Laozi: The Universe
The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.
Monday Jun 21, 2021
Laozi: What does Kindness create?
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
Tuesday May 18, 2021
Laozi: Spontaneous changes
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
Laozi: Mind where you are going
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Laozi: Giving and taking
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Laozi: Be yourself
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Wednesday Jul 29, 2020
Laozi: How so you see your enemies?
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
Wednesday May 20, 2020
Laozi: Simplicity
See simplicity in the complicated,
Seek greatness in small things.
Tuesday Jan 7, 2020
Laozi: Your positive future
Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.
Wednesday Nov 27, 2019
Laozi: Being still
Being still does not mean don't move.
It means move in peace.
Monday Sep 2, 2019
Laozi: The Truth
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
Wednesday Jul 17, 2019
Laozi: The Prisoner
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
Thursday Jun 20, 2019
Laozi: The past, the future and the present
If you are depressed, you are living in the past.
If you are anxious, you are living in the future.
If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
Thursday May 24, 2018
Laozi: Love the world
Love the world as your own self;
then you can truly care for all things.
Tuesday Nov 8, 2016
Laozi gives us 6 suggestions
In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
Tuesday Oct 25, 2016
Laozi: Clear water
Do you have the patience to wait
until your mud settles
and the water is clear?
Tuesday Jun 28, 2016
Laozi: The key to growth
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
Tuesday Jun 7, 2016
Laozi: The strongest passion
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Tuesday May 3, 2016
Laozi: Enough is enough
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
Tuesday Mar 15, 2016
Laozi: Soft and hard
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
Tuesday Mar 1, 2016
Laozi: The root and its stillness
The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfills its destiny.
Tuesday May 26, 2015
Laozi: Predicting and knowledge
Those who have knowledge, don't predict.
Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
Tuesday May 19, 2015
Laozi: Love and courage
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Wednesday Feb 18, 2015
Laozi: Conquer yourself
He who conquers others is strong.
He who conquers himself is mighty.
Friday Sep 6, 2013
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.