Quote

Observe how endings become beginnings.

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
Tao
Endings
Beginnings
Observe
Become

More quotes by Laozi

Image
All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All things alike do their work, and then we see them subside. When they have reached their bloom, each returns to its origin. . . . This reversion is an eternal law. To know that law is wisdom.
Laozi
Image
Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.
Laozi
Image
Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.
Laozi
Image
Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.
Laozi
Image
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Laozi
Image
Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.
Laozi
Image
When you extend your goodwill in every direction, regardless of circumstances, you begin to see that we are all one.
Laozi
Image
Nature is not anthropomorphic.
Laozi
Image
If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.
Laozi
Image
Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pots not is where it's useful. Cut doors and windows to make a room. Where the room isn't, there's room for you. So the profit in what is, is in the use of what isn't.
Laozi
Image
To have enough of enough is always enough.
Laozi
Image
I alone am different from the others, because I am nourished by the great mother.
Laozi
Image
Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down the low, it lifts up It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?
Laozi
Image
How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.
Laozi
Image
The world may be known Without leaving the house.
Laozi
Image
As for the proper way: it is the beginning of disorder.
Laozi
Image
One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.
Laozi
Image
Solve it before it happens. Order it before chaos emerges.
Laozi
Image
The most straight seems curved.
Laozi
Image
The well-run group is not a battlefield of egos.
Laozi