Zi, Lao (Lao Zi)

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

-- Lao Zi

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

-- Lao Zi

The true free living human-being is the one that achieves his dream without depending on someone.

-- Lao Zi

He who obtains has little; he who scatters has much.

-- Lao Zi

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.
-- Lao Zi

Wise men don't need to prove their point;

men who need to prove their point aren't wise.

The Master has no possessions.

The more he does for others, the happier he is.

The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.

The Tao nourishes by not forcing.

By not dominating, the Master leads.
-- Lao Zi

The universe is deathless; Is deathless because, having no finite self, it stays infinite. A sound man by not advancing himself stays the further ahead of himself, By not confining himself to himself sustains himself outside himself: By never being an end in himself he endlessly becomes himself.
-- Lao Zi

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. Fail to honor people, They fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, "We did this ourselves."
-- Lao Zi

Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise. The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is. The Tao nourishes by not forcing. By not dominating, the Master leads.
-- Lao Zi

A true traveller has no fixed plan, and is not intent on arriving.
-- Lao Zi

Above all, do not compete.
-- Lao Zi

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning.
-- Lao Zi

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
-- Lao Zi

Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.
-- Lao Zi

He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know.
-- Lao Zi

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
-- Lao Zi

He who obtains has little; he who scatters has much.
-- Lao Zi

I am not at all interested in immortality, only in the taste of tea.
-- Lao Zi

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
-- Lao Zi

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
-- Lao Zi

The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be.
-- Lao Zi

The true free living human-being is the one that achieves his dream without depending on someone.
-- Lao Zi

To see things in the seed, that is genius.
-- Lao Zi

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
-- Lao Zi

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
-- Lao Zi

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