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Laozi Quotes about Life

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Laozi
Life, Change, Spiritual

Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small.

Laozi
Life, Issues, Tasks

If you correct your mind the rest of your life will fall into place.

Laozi
Inspirational, Life, Positive
Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Laozi
Life, Happiness, Spiritual

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.

Laozi
Life, Wise, Wisdom

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Laozi
Love, Inspirational, Life

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Laozi
Life, Spiritual, Self Esteem

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Laozi
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life.

Laozi
Life, Appreciation, Mind

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Laozi
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

Laozi
Inspirational, Life, Summer

Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

Laozi
Life, Patience, Philosophy

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

Laozi
Life, Wise, Learning
Laozi, Lao-Tzu, Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo (2007). “Tao Te Ching”, p.81, Shambhala Publications

If you attach yourself to gross energies - loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another - then you will lead a series of heavy, attached lives. This can go on for a very long and tedious time.

Laozi
Life, Hate, Long
Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Laozi
Inspirational, Life, Music

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
Life, Attachment, Self
Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

Look, and it can't be seen. Listen, and it can't be heard. Reach, and it can't be grasped. Above, it isn't bright. Below, it isn't dark. Seamless, unnamable, it returns to the realm of nothing. Form that includes all forms, image without an image, subtle, beyond all conception. Approach it and there is no beginning; follow it and there is no end. You can't know it, but you can be it, at ease in your own life. Just realize where you come from: this is the essence of wisdom.

Laozi
Life, Dark, Essence

Why are the people starving?- Because their grain is being eaten up by the taxes That's why they're starving Why are people rebellious?- Because those above them meddle in their lives That's why they're rebellious Why do people regard death so lightly?- Because they are so involved with their own living That's why they regard death so lightly In the end, The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on and gained by those who let go

Laozi
Life, Letting Go, People

When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life and dry in brittle in death So the soft and supple are the companion of life While the stiff and unyielding are the companions of death An army that cannot yield will be defeated A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind Thus by Nature's own decree the hard and strong are defeated while the soft and gentle are triumphant

Laozi
Life, Strong, Army

Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life? To an integral being, there is no such distinction.

Laozi
Life, Spiritual, Being There
Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

Laozi
Life, Thinking, Light
Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation.

Laozi
Inspirational, Life, Passion

To have little is to possess.

Laozi
Life, Littles

When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.

Laozi
Life, Two, Feet

Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.

Laozi
Inspirational, Life, Death

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