Quote

Life and death are one thread.

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
Life
Thread
Death

More quotes by Laozi

Image
Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death.
Laozi
Image
Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.
Laozi
Image
Must one dread what others dread?
Laozi
Image
When you are sick of your sickness you will cease to be sick.
Laozi
Image
Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.
Laozi
Image
If I have even just a little sense, I will walk on the main road and my only fear will be of straying from it. Keeping to the main road is easy, But people love to be sidetracked.
Laozi
Image
Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.
Laozi
Image
We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.
Laozi
Image
What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out
Laozi
Image
Abandon knowledge and your worries are over.
Laozi
Image
The Tao never acts with force, yet there is nothing that it can not do.
Laozi
Image
Heaven's Way is like stretching a bow. The high is lowered and the low is raised. Excess is reduced and deficiency is replenished. Heaven's Way reduces excess and replenishes deficiency. People's Way is not so. They reduce the deficient and supply the excessive.
Laozi
Image
What should be shrunken must first be stretched.
Laozi
Image
He who hoards much loses much.
Laozi
Image
For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.
Laozi
Image
The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.
Laozi
Image
Nature doesn't make long speeches.
Laozi
Image
To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths.
Laozi
Image
Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.
Laozi
Image
People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.
Laozi