Laozi

Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.

Laozi

Life must be poetry, a song, a dance, like a flower on the roadside, blossoming for no one in particular, but spreading its fragrance in the wind, and sending it anywhere.

Laozi

Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not.

Laozi

Look, and it can’t be seen. Listen, and it can’t be heard. Reach, and it can’t be grasped.

Laozi

Loss is not as bad as wanting more.

Laozi

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

Man is ruled by Earth. Earth is ruled by Heaven. Heaven is ruled by the Way. The Way is ruled by itself.

Laozi

Man, when living, is soft and tender; when dead, he is hard and tough. All animals and plants when living are tender and delicate; when dead they become withered and dry. Therefore it is said: the hard and tough are parts of death; the soft and tender are parts of life.

Laozi

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Laozi

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Laozi