Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Those who have compassion when they do battle will be victorious. Those who likewise defend themselves will be safe. Heaven will rescue and protect them with compassion.
Laozi
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Laozi
Archivist
Philosopher
Writer
Lao-tze
Lao Tzu
Lao-tzu
Lao-tsu
Li Er
Laotze
Safe
Victorious
Heaven
Likewise
Taoism
Rescue
Defend
Battle
Compassion
Protect
More quotes by Laozi
But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance they discard humility, and aim only at being first. Therefore they shall surely perish.
Laozi
The Way to do is to be.
Laozi
Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.
Laozi
The soft and weak can overcome the hard and strong.
Laozi
If one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding.
Laozi
All things of the world are born of being being is born of nonbeing.
Laozi
The one who is conscious (in Tao) can't speak. The one who can speak is not conscious (centered in Tao)
Laozi
To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
Laozi
That so few understand me is why I am treasured.
Laozi
Those who take long steps cannot keep the pace.
Laozi
We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.
Laozi
To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
Laozi
The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.
Laozi
Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life? To an integral being, there is no such distinction.
Laozi
The Way is ever nameless.
Laozi
Use the Light that dwells within you to regain your natural clarity of sight.
Laozi
Observe how endings become beginnings.
Laozi
Be Content with what you have rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Laozi
True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.
Laozi
Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.
Laozi
