Taoism Quotes - Page 8

• A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get what they need, the great country ought to yield.

  Laozi

  Country, Yield, People

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• Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is close to the Way.

  Laozi

  Compassion, People, Water

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• Other people are joyous, like on the feast of the ox, like on the way up to the terrace in the spring. I alone am inert, giving no sign, like a newborn baby who has not learned to smile.

  Laozi

  Baby, Spring, Compassion

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• I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.

  Laozi

  Home, Compassion, Ifs

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• Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Knowing, Honor

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• Other people have more than they need, I alone seem wanting.

  Laozi

  Compassion, People, Needs

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• The sage honors his part of the settlement, but does not exact his due from others.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Honor, Doe

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• By compassion one can be brave.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Brave, Be Brave

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• Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Sea, Wave

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• I have three treasures that I cherish. The first is compassion. The second is moderation. The third is not claiming to be first in the world.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Three, World

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• I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.

  Laozi

  People, Desire, Woods

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• The softest in the world surpasses the hardest in the world.

  Laozi

  World, Hardest

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• By not claiming to be first in the world one can rule.

  Laozi

  World, Firsts

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• Excellent leaders of people lower themselves.

  Laozi

  People, Leader, Excellent

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• To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.

  Laozi

  Country, Kings, World

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• The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.

  Laozi

  Subjects, Supreme, Rulers

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• In lightness the root is lost. In haste the ruler is lost.

  Laozi

  Roots, Haste, Lost

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• As soon as rules were made, names were given. There are already many names. One must know when it is enough.

  Laozi

  Names, Enough, Made

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• The more sharp weapons people have in a country, the bigger the disorder will be.

  Laozi

  Country, People, Weapons

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• When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.

  Laozi

  Government, People, Conniving

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• Being a model to the world, eternal virtue will never falter in you, and you return to the boundless.

  Laozi

  World, Return, Virtue

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• A good mooring needs no knot, still no one can untie it.

  Laozi

  Needs, Knots, Stills

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• A good door needs no lock, still it can't be opened.

  Laozi

  Doors, Needs, Locks

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• A good counter needs no calculator.

  Laozi

  Needs, Calculators

  Laozi, Bi Wang, Paul J. Lin (1977). “A translation of Lao Tzu's Tao te ching and Wang Pi's commentary”, Univ of Michigan Center for chinese

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• When the sage stands above people, they are not oppressed. When he leads people, they are not obstructed. The world will exalt him and not grow tired of him.

  Laozi

  Tired, People, Sage

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