Quote

We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.

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
Wood
Woods
Inner
Space
House
Makes
Hammer
Hammers

More quotes by Laozi

Image
Observe how endings become beginnings.
Laozi
Image
The Way is the source of all things, good people's treasure and bad people's refuge.
Laozi
Image
Great accomplishment seems imperfect, Yet it does not outlive its usefulness. Great fullness seems empty, Yet it cannot be exhausted.
Laozi
Image
Nothing and no one in the world is valuable or worthless.
Laozi
Image
When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.
Laozi
Image
If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
Laozi
Image
Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.
Laozi
Image
To lead, one must follow.
Laozi
Image
Just as the value of a house lies in its location, The value of a mind lies in its depth, The value of giving lies in the presence of a generous spirit, The value of words lies in their reliability.
Laozi
Image
I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
Laozi
Image
If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn!
Laozi
Image
Who can enjoy enlightenment and remain indifferent to suffering in the world? This is not in keeping with the Way. Only those who increase their service along with their understanding can be called men and women of Tao.
Laozi
Image
In 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.
Laozi
Image
The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
Laozi
Image
Must one dread what others dread?
Laozi
Image
To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely on one's own ability, To lead them, but not to master them - This is called profound and secret virtue.
Laozi
Image
A sage is skilled at helping people without excluding anyone.
Laozi
Image
Be as the still mountain Move like the great river.
Laozi
Image
The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This is why it is so similar to the Way.
Laozi
Image
That which is achieved the most, still has the whole of its future yet to be achieved.
Laozi