Lao Tzu
Laozi, also spelt as Lao Tzu and Laou-tsze, was a legendary Chinese philosopher considered to be the author of the Tao Te Ching, one of the foundational texts of Taoism. Modern scholarship generally regards his biographical details as later inventions and his opus a collaboration of various writers, with the name Laozi, literally meaning 'Old Master', likely intended to portray an archaic anonymity that could converse with Confucianism. Traditional accounts addend him as Li Er, born in the 6th-century BC state of Chu during China's Spring and Autumn period. Serving as the royal archivist for the Zhou court at Wangcheng, he met and impressed Confucius on one occasion, composing the Dào Dé Jīng in a single session before retiring into the western wilderness.
WikipediaLao Tzu Quotes (22)
"Confidence is the greatest friend."
View quote details →"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
View quote details →"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
View quote details →"Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power."
View quote details →"Freedom from desire leads to inner peace."
View quote details →"To lead the people, walk behind them."
View quote details →"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."
View quote details →"Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner."
View quote details →"Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it."
View quote details →"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."
View quote details →"New beginnings are disguised as painful endings."
View quote details →"Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires."
View quote details →"The heart that gives, gathers."
View quote details →"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."
View quote details →"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment."
View quote details →"We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want."
View quote details →"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
View quote details →"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."
View quote details →"Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?"
View quote details →"Empty yourself of everything - let the mind become still."
View quote details →"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."
View quote details →"If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. if you are at peace, you are living in the present."
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