Laozi

Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune.

Laozi

Moderation means prevention. Prevention means achieving much virtue.

Laozi

Most of the world’s religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and so on. Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the integral oneness.

Laozi

Moved by deep love, a man is courageous. And with frugality, a man becomes generous, And he who does not desire to be ahead of the world becomes the leader of the world.

Laozi

My words are easy to understand and easy to perform, Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them.

Laozi

My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.

Laozi

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Laozi

Nature’s way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.

Laozi

Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.

Laozi

No disaster is worse than being discontented.

Laozi