Quote

The Way is hidden and nameless. Still only the Way nourishes and completes.

Laozi

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Laozi
Archivist
Philosopher
Writer
Lao-tze
Lao Tzu
Lao-tzu
Lao-tsu
Li Er
Laotze
Taoism
Hidden
Stills
Still
Way
Completes
Nourishes
Nameless

More quotes by Laozi

Image
Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.
Laozi
Image
Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.
Laozi
Image
Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.
Laozi
Image
The whole world says that my Way is great like nothing else. It is great because it is like nothing else. If it were like everything else, it would long ago have become insignificant.
Laozi
Image
The most fundamental seems fickle.
Laozi
Image
Know the white, But keep the black, Be an example to the world! Being an example to the world, Ever true and unwavering, Return to the infinite.
Laozi
Image
When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.
Laozi
Image
I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
Laozi
Image
Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.
Laozi
Image
For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.
Laozi
Image
(The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things.
Laozi
Image
Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.
Laozi
Image
The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.
Laozi
Image
The truth often sounds paradoxical.
Laozi
Image
A good counter needs no calculator.
Laozi
Image
Harmony is called the eternal. Knowing the eternal is called clarity.
Laozi
Image
Solve it before it happens. Order it before chaos emerges.
Laozi
Image
The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete.
Laozi
Image
The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
Laozi
Image
Without stepping out the door, you can know the world.
Laozi