5. BRI - Ecological and Social Considerations by Laozi
5. BRI - Ecological and Social Considerations by Laozi
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed34371 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“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.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: inspirational, life, philosophy5763 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: travel5252 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: wisdom5003 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“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.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: acceptance, change, life, reality, serenity3804 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: life, travel3717 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, integrity, self-reliance, self-respect3093 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: apothegm, beauty, truth2210 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: time2150 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“The best fighter is never angry.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: anger, anger-management, ataraxy, bushido, inner-peace, martial-arts, self-control, serenity, warrior-ethos, warriorship2072 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“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.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: misattributed, misattributed-lao-tzu2000 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: acceptance, contentment, perception, self-acceptance, self-assurance, self-confidence1986 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: courage, death, inspirational, life, moral-courage, real-life1807 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
― Lao Tzu
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“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.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: contentment1340 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“At the center of your being
you have the answer;
you know who you are
and you know what you want.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: profound, self-awareness, self-discovery1273 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: dreams1253 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Silence is a source of Great Strength.”
― Lao Tzu
“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”
― Lao Tzu, Te-Tao Ching
tags: aphorism, philosophy, proverb1099 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“If you understand others you are smart.
If you understand yourself you are illuminated.
If you overcome others you are powerful.
If you overcome yourself you have strength.
If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.
If you can act with vigor, you have a will.
If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting.
If you die without loss, you are eternal.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: philosophy1074 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Stop thinking, and end your problems.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: thinking1029 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
― Lao-Tzu
tags: kindness976 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: detachment, envy, greed, illusions, selfishness, simplicity963 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“A leader is best
When people barely know he exists
Of a good leader, who talks little,
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
They will say, “We did this ourselves.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: good-leader, leader, leaders, people749 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: attributed-no-source, music736 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment”
― Lao Tzu
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“Act without expectation.”
― Lao Tzu
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“If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: coming-to-terms, life, wisdom601 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: frugality, humility, leadership591 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: philosophy, taoism568 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“To know that you do not know is the best.
To think you know when you do not is a disease.
Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: ignorance, knowledge526 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Stop thinking, and end your problems.
What difference between yes and no?
What difference between success and failure?
Must you value what others value,
avoid what others avoid?
How ridiculous!
Other people are excited,
as though they were at a parade.
I alone don't care,
I alone am expressionless,
like an infant before it can smile.
Other people have what they need;
I alone possess nothing.
I alone drift about,
like someone without a home.
I am like an idiot, my mind is so empty.
Other people are bright;
I alone am dark.
Other people are sharp;
I alone am dull.
Other people have purpose;
I alone don't know.
I drift like a wave on the ocean,
I blow as aimless as the wind.
I am different from ordinary people.
I drink from the Great Mother's breasts.”
― Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: wisdom-for-living508 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: be-yourself, white487 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: actions, character, destiny, habits, thoughts, words483 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“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.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Give evil nothing to oppose
and it will disappear by itself.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.”
― Lao-Tzu
tags: compassion, kindness457 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: knowledge446 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“To understand the limitation of things, desire them.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: tao440 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: attachment425 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“By letting go it all gets done.”
― Lao-Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“To a mind that is still the whole universe surrenders.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: advice-for-daily-living, conflict, life, living, thinking, work395 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“all streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. humility gives it its power. if you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them. if you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“To lead people, walk beside them ...
As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence.
The next best, the people honor and praise.
The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ...
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
We did it ourselves!”
― Lao Tzu
tags: lead350 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The further one goes, the less one knows.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Love
Embracing Tao, you become embraced.
Supple, breathing gently, you become reborn.
Clearing your vision, you become clear.
Nurturing your beloved, you become impartial.
Opening your heart, you become accepted.
Accepting the World, you embrace Tao.
Bearing and nurturing,
Creating but not owning,
Giving without demanding,
Controlling without authority,
This is love.”
― Laozi, The Teachings of Lao-Tzu: The Tao-Te Ching
tags: love306 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“She does not show herself, and therefore is apparent. She does not affirm herself, and therefore is acknowledged. She does not boast and therefore has merit. She does not strive and therefore is successful. It is exactly because she does not contend, that nobody can contend with her.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Loss is not as bad as wanting more.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The Way to do is to be.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: meditation, self-awareness, self-discovery297 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: contemplation, proverb295 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“So the unwanting soul
sees what's hidden,
and the ever-wanting soul
sees only what it wants.”
―
“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: know-thyself, understanding-others280 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: inspirational280 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: beauty, evil, good, inspirational, lao-tzu, tao-te-ching, worldview273 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Close your mouth,
block off your senses,
blunt your sharpness,
untie your knots,
soften your glare,
settle your dust.
This is the primal identity.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Literal Translation With an Introduction, Notes, and Commentary
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“When there is no desire,
all things are at peace.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: patience, taoism, understand264 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.
We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.
We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.
We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: inspirational, love, philosophy, poetry262 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: self-control258 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty" - Lao-tsu”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Love is a decision - not an emotion!”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: decision, emotion, love247 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: comedy, eastern-philosophy, philosophy247 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Because of a great love, one is courageous.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: love240 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: life, universe233 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Success is as dangerous as failure.
Hope is as hollow as fear.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“True words aren't eloquent;
eloquent words aren't true.
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.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Do you have the patience to wait
Till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
Till the right action arises by itself?”
― Lao tzu
tags: eastern-philosophy217 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?”
― Lao-Tzu, The Way of Life
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Lao Tzu
“Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.”
― Lao Tzu
“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 Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Countless words
count less
than the silent balance
between yin and yang”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: chinese-literature, classics, tao-te-ching210 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“There is
a time to live
and a time to die
but never to reject the moment.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: inspirational, tao-te-ching205 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Rushing into action, you fail.
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion,
you ruin what was almost ripe.
Therefore the Master takes action
by letting things take their course.
He remains as calm at the end
as at the beginning.
He has nothing,
thus has nothing to lose.
What he desires is non-desire;
what he learns is to unlearn.
He simply reminds people
of who they have always been.
He cares about nothing but the Tao.
Thus he can care for all things.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: action, calm, care, completion, desire, fail, forcing, grasp, learn, lose, ripe, ruin, tao196 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“The past has no power to stop you
from being present now.
Only your grievance about
the past can do that.
What is grievance?
The baggage of old
thought and emotion.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: inspirational-quotes195 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: emotions, feelings, reality194 likesLike
Henry Miller
“No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.”
― Henry Miller
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Lao Tzu
“My teachings are easy to understand
and easy to put into practice.
Yet your intellect will never grasp them,
and if you try to practice them,you'll fail.
My teachings are older than the world.
How can you grasp their meaning?
If you want to know me,
Look inside your heart.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.”
― Lao Tzu, Te-Tao Ching
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Lao Tzu
“He who stands on tiptoe
doesn't stand firm.
He who rushes ahead
doesn't go far.
He who tries to shine
dims his own light.
He who defines himself
can't know who he really is.
He who has power over others
can't empower himself.
He who clings to his work
will create nothing that endures.
If you want to accord with the Tao,
just do your job, then let go.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Great acts are made up of small deeds.”
― Lao-Tzu
tags: inspirational176 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: action, inspirational, serenity172 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“When nothing is done,
nothing is left undone.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: Book of the Way
tags: tao168 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.”
― Lao-Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity”
― Lao Tzu
tags: stillness158 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“New Beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Do you want to improve the world?
I don't think it can be done.
The world is sacred.
It can't be improved.
If you tamper with it, you'll ruin it.
If you treat it like an object, you'll lose it.
There is a time for being ahead,
a time for being behind;
a time for being in motion,
a time for being at rest;
a time for being vigorous,
a time for being exhausted;
a time for being safe,
a time for being in danger.
The Master sees things as they are,
without trying to control them.
She lets them go their own way,
and resides at the center of the circle.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: lao-tzu, tao, tao-te-ching, taoism151 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: wisdom150 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“The world belongs to those who let go.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“if you want to know me, look inside your heart.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Not-knowing is true knowledge.
Presuming to know is a disease.
First realize that you are sick;
then you can move toward health.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Colors blind the eye
Sounds deafen the ear.
Flavors numb the taste.
Thoughts weaken the mind.
Desires wither the heart.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Let it be still, and it will gradually become clear.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“A great nation is like a great man:
When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.
Having realized it, he admits it.
Having admitted it, he corrects it.
He considers those who point out his faults
as his most benevolent teachers.
He thinks of his enemy
as the shadow that he himself casts.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: admit, correct, enemy, fault, mistake, realize134 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: heart, love, passion131 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Would you like to save the world from the degradation and destruction it seems destined for? Then step away from shallow mass movements and quietly go to work on your own self-awareness. If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: fear, strength129 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“There is no illusion greater than fear.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching
tags: inspirational, overcoming-fear128 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“If you show yourself, you will not be seen. If you affirm yourself, you will not shine. If you boast, you will have no merit. If you promote yourself, you will have no success.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Respond to anger with virtue. Deal with difficulties while they are still easy. Handle the great while it is still small.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: self-knowledge, self-perception, understanding111 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, there arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, there arises the recognition of evil.”
― Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching, Eighty-one Maxims from the Father of Taoism / Includes "The Gatekeeper's Tale"
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Lao Tzu
“A man is born gentle and weak; at his death he is hard and stiff. All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life; dry and brittle in death. Stiffness is thus a companion of death; flexibility a companion of life. An army that cannot yield will be defeated. A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. The hard and stiff will be broken; the soft and supple will prevail.”
― Lao-Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start
with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best
leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will
say 'We have done this ourselves.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Take care with the end as you do with the beginning.”
― Lao-Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Failure is an opportunity.
If you blame someone else,
there is no end to the blame.
Therefore the Master
fulfills her own obligations
and corrects her own mistakes.
She does what she needs to do
and demands nothing of others.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“When the Master governs, the people
are hardly aware that he exists.
Next best is a leader who is loved.
Next, one who is feared.
The worst is one who is despised.
If you don't trust people,
you make them untrustworthy.
The Master doesn't talk, he acts.
When his work is done,
the people say, "Amazing:
we did it, all by ourselves!”
― Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. 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.”
― lao tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Not seeking, not expecting, she is present, and can welcome all things.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Knowing others is wisdom;
Knowing the self is enlightenment.
Mastering others requires force;
Mastering the self requires strength;
He who knows he has enough is rich.
Perseverance is a sign of will power.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The person of superior integrity
does not insist upon his integrity.
For this reason, he has integrity.
The person of inferior integrity
never loses sight of his integrity;
For this reason, he lacks integrity.”
― Lao-Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: problems91 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“He is free from self- display, and therefore he shines;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“If you are untrustworthy, people will not trust you.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Be like water.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others,
the more he has for his own.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: generosity, kindness82 likesLike
Zhuangzi
“The baby looks at things all day without winking; that is because his eyes are not focused on any particular object. He goes without knowing where he is going, and stops without knowing what he is doing. He merges himself within the surroundings and moves along with it. These are the principles of mental hygiene.”
― Chuang-Tzu
tags: chuang-tzu, lao-tzu, zen82 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: inspirational82 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. If, when you see the symptoms, you can tell, Your cure is quick.
A sound man knows that sickness makes him sick and before he catches it his cure is quick.”
― Lao Tzu, The Chinese Translations
tags: eastern-thought, inspirational, macrobiotics, poetry, taoism80 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Тhe gentle overcomes the rigid.
The slow overcomes the fast.
The weak overcomes the strong."
…
"Everyone knows that the yielding overcomes the stiff,
and the soft overcomes the hard.
Yet no one applies this knowledge.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: fast, gentle, hard, knowledge, overcome, rigid, slow, strong, yield78 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: speech, travel, wisdom77 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Just remain in the center; watching. And then forget that you are there.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: life-and-living77 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.”
― Lao Tzu
“The master observes the world but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. He prefers what is within to what is without.”
― Lao-Tzu
tags: inspirational75 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“When goodness is lost there is morality.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“True perfection seems imperfect,
yet it is perfectly itself.
True fullness seems empty,
yet it is fully present.
True straightness seems crooked.
True wisdom seems foolish.
True art seems artless.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Clay is fashioned into vessels; but it is on their empty hollowness, that their use depends.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“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."
…
"There is no greater misfortune
than underestimating your enemy.
Underestimating your enemy
means thinking that he is evil.
Thus you destroy your three treasures
and become an enemy yourself.
When two great forces oppose each other,
the victory will go
to the one that knows how to yield.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: compassion, enemy, misfortune, patience, treasure, yield70 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground
While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: tao-te-ching, taoism69 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery follow a great victory. Do only what needs to be done without using violence.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Water is fluid, soft & yielding but water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield ... what is soft is strong.”
― Lao-tzu
tags: inspirational, tenacity67 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“free from desire, you realize the mystery
caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.”
― lao tzu
tags: desire67 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“True words are not fancy. Fancy words are not true. The good do not debate. Debaters are not good.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“in the pursuit of knowledge:
everyday something is added.
in the pursuit of enlightenment:
everyday something is dropped.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Thus it is said:
The path into the light seems dark,
the path forward seems to go back,
the direct path seems long,
true power seems weak,
true purity seems tarnished,
true steadfastness seems changeable,
true clarity seems obscure,
the greatest are seems unsophisticated,
the greatest love seems indifferent,
the greatest wisdom seems childish.
The Tao is nowhere to be found.
Yet it nourishes and completes all things.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: clarity, light, love, path, power, purity, steadfastness, wisdom66 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“If you want to lead them you must place yourself behind them.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Boasting of wealth and virtue brings your demise.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“When the work is done, and one's name is becoming distinguished, to withdraw into obscurity is the way of Heaven.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“He who is in harmony with the Tao
is like a newborn child.
Its bones are soft, its muscles are weak,
but its grip is powerful.
It doesn't know about the union
of male and female,
yet its penis can stand erect,
so intense is its vital power.
It can scream its head off all day,
yet it never becomes hoarse,
so complete is its harmony.
The Master's power is like this.
He lets all things come and go
effortlessly, without desire.
He never expects results;
thus he is never disappointed.
He is never disappointed;
thus his spirit never grows old.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: balance, philosophy, tao, tao-te-ching, taoism63 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Everything under heaven is a sacred vessel and cannot be controlled. Trying to control leads to ruin. Trying to grasp, we lose. Allow your life to unfold naturally. Know that it too is a vessel of perfection. Just as you breathe in and breathe out, there is a time for being ahead and a time for being behind; a time for being in motion and a time for being at rest; a time for being vigorous and a time for being exhausted; a time for being safe and a time for being in danger.”
― Lao-Tzu
“Every step is on the path.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Knowing others is Wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment”
― Lao Tzu
tags: enlightenment59 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Knowing how to yield is strength”
― Lao-Tzu
“Must you value what others value,
avoid what others avoid?
How ridiculous!”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“With no desire, at rest and still, All things go right as of their will.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Without opening your door,
you can open your heart to the world.
Without looking out your window,
you can see the essence of the Tao.
The more you know,
the less you understand.
The Master arrives without leaving,
sees the light without looking,
achieves without doing a thing.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“A violent wind does not last for a whole morning; a sudden rain does not last for the whole day.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Existence is beyond the power of words
To define:
Terms may be used
But are none of them absolute.
In the beginning of heaven and earth there were no words,
Words came out of the womb of matter;
And whether a man dispassionately
Sees to the core of life
Or passionately
Sees the surface,
The core and the surface
Are essentially the same,
Words making them seem different
Only to express appearance.
If name be needed, wonder names them both:
From wonder into wonder
Existence opens.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: philosophy55 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“When you accept yourself, the whole world accepts you.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“To be worn out is to be renewed.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.”
― Lao-tzu
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Lao Tzu
“He whose (desires) are few gets them; he whose (desires) are many goes astray.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“There is no disaster greater than not being content; There is no misfortune greater than being covetous.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: life, philosophy, tao-te-ching
“If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: anger, god, gods, lightning, trees, wisdom49 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“The flexible are preserved unbroken. The bent become straight. The empty are filled. The exhausted become renewed. The poor are enriched. The rich are confounded. Therefore the sage embraces the one. Because he doesn't display himself, people can see his light. Because he has nothing to prove, people can trust his words. Because he doesn't know who he is, people recognize themselves in him. Because he has no goal in mind, everything he does succeeds. The old saying that the flexible are preserved unbroken is surely right! If you have truely attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.”
― Lao-Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.”
― Lao-Tzu
tags: laws48 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: inspirational
“Where the Mystery is the deepest is the gate of all that is subtle and wonderful.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“An over sharpened sword cannot last long. ”
― Lao Tzu
“he who overcomes himself is mighty.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding ”
― Lao Tzu (Lao Tse)
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Lao Tzu
“To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“a skillful soldier is not violent, an able fighter does not rage, a mighty conqueror does not give battle, a great commander is a humble man”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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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.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: inspirational44 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“When wealth and honours lead to arrogancy, this brings its evil on itself.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“To speak little is natural. Therefore a gale does not blow a whole morning nor does a downpour last a whole day.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: communication42 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.”
― Lao-Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The way of heaven is to help and not harm.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Go to the people. Live with them, learn from them, love them.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“In harmony with the Tao,
the sky is clear and spacious,
the earth is solid and full,
all creatures flourish together,
content with the way they are,
endlessly repeating themselves,
endlessly renewed.
when man interferes with the Tao
the sky becomes filthy,
the earth becomes depleted,
the equilibrium crumbles,
creatures become extinct.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The Tao doesn't take sides;
it gives birth to both good and evil.
The Master doesn't take sides;
she welcomes both saints and sinners.
The Tao is like a bellows:
it is empty yet infinitely capable.
The more you use it, the more it produces;
the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
Hold on to the center.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Change your thoughts, change your life. —LAO TZU When I was fighting depression, I remember hearing this expression and not understanding it at first. When I decided to implement it in my life, a whole new world opened up for me. Change the negative, self-loathing thoughts to positive, self-affirming ones. When you’re positive about yourself and everything around you, you begin to see the world in a different light. Your life today is what you make of it. Goal: Be mindful of the tone of your thoughts.”
― Demi Lovato, Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year
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Lao Tzu
“Some say that my teaching is nonsense.
Other call it lofty but impractical.
But to those who have looked inside themselves,
this nonsense makes perfect sense.
And to those who put it into practice,
this loftiness has roots that go deep.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: lofty, look-inside, perfect-sense, practice, roots38 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad.
Being and non-being create each other.
Difficult and easy support each other.
Long and short define each other.
High and low depend on each other.
Before and after follow each other.
Therefore the Master
acts without doing anything
and teaches without saying anything.
Things arise and she lets them come;
things disappear and she lets them go.
She has but doesn't possess,
acts but doesn't expect.
When her work is done, she forgets it.
That is why it lasts forever.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“If you do not value rare treasures, you will stop others from stealing.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: posessions
“As to the roaming of sages,
They move in utter emptiness,
Let their minds meander in the great nothingness;
They run beyond convention
And go through where there is no gateway.
They listen to the soundless
And look at the formless,
They are not constrained by society
And not bound to its customs.
- Lao-tzu”
― Lao Tzu
tags: philosophy-of-life35 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“To know and yet (think) we do not know is the highest (attainment); not to know (and yet think) we do know is a disease.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“He who knows he has enough is rich. Perseverance is a sign of will power. He who stays where he is endures. To die but not to perish is to be eternally present.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial. If you want to become straight, let yourself be crooked. If you want to become full, let yourself be empty. If you want to be reborn, let yourself die. If you want to be given everything, give everything up.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Always without desire we must be found,”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“With few there is attainment. With much there is confusion.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Figure out the rhythm of life and live in harmony with it.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching
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Lao Tzu
“If the people must be ever fearful of death, then there will always be an executioner.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. 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.”
― Lao Tzu
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Tammara Webber
“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings ~ Lao Tzu.”
― Tammara Webber, Breakable
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Lao Tzu
“There are few in the world who attain to the teaching without words, and the advantage arising from non-action.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.”
― Lao-Tzu
tags: essence, life31 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Is it not through her selflessness that she is able to perfect herself?”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Composure is the ruler of instability.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“When the highest type of men hear Tao,
They diligently practice it.
When the average type of men hear Tao,
They half believe in it.
When the lowest type of men hear Tao,
They laugh heartily at it.
Without the laugh, there is no Tao”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“stillness, the ruler of movement.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“If I had just a little bit of wisdom I should walk the great path and fear only straying from it.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“When men lost their understanding of the Tao, intelligence came along, bringing hypocrisy with it.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“It is better to leave a vessel unfilled, than to attempt to carry it when it is full.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Whoever is planted in the Tao
will not be rooted up.
Whoever embraces the Tao
will not slip away.
Her name will be held in honor
from generation to generation.
Let the Tao be present in your life
and you will become genuine.
Let it be Present in your family
and your family will flourish.
Let it be present in your country
and your country will be an example
to all countries in the world.
Let it be present in the universe
and the universe will sing.
How do I know this is true?
by looking inside myself.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Nothingness and Beingness are merely conceptions...”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“When you are at one with loss, the loss is experienced willingly.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The soft overcomes the hard; and the weak the strong.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Those who understand others are intelligent
Those who understand themselves are enlightened
Those who overcome others have strength
Those who overcome themselves are powerful
Those who know contentment are wealthy
Those who proceed vigorously have willpower
Those who do not lose their base endure
Those who die but do not perish have longevity”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“It is because he is thus free from striving that therefore no one in the world is able to strive with him.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Look, and it can't be seen.
Listen, and it can't be heard.
Reach, and it can't be grasped.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“NOT LAO TZU!!!! Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: fucking-canoe26 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“When turmoil rules, go in.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Every journey begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Allow the heart to empty itself of all turmoil! Retrieve the utter tranquility of the mind from which you issued.
Although all forms are dynamic,and we all grow and transform,each of us is compelled to return to our root. Our root is quietude.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: quietness, solitude26 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“If you want to govern the people,
You must place yourself below them.
If you want to lead people,
You must learn how to follow them.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: below, follow, govern, lead, learn, people25 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving (to the contrary), the low place which all men dislike.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“If we could renounce our sageness and discard our wisdom, it would be better for the people a hundredfold.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“The Tao is (like) the emptiness of a vessel; and in our employment of it we must be on our guard against all fulness.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The more laws and restrictions there are,
The poorer people become.
...
The more rules and regulations,
The more thieves and robbers.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: anarchy, coercion, communism, free, free-market, freedom, government, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, market, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, trade, voluntaryism25 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“The Master is her own physician.
She has healed herself of all knowing.
Thus she is truly whole.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The Master doesn't try to be powerful;
thus he is truly powerful.
The ordinary man keeps reaching for power;
thus he never has enough.
The Master does nothing,
yet he leaves nothing undone.
The ordinary man is always ding things,
yet many more are left to be done.
[…]
Therefore the Master concerns himself
With the depths and not the surface,
With the fruit and not the flower.
[…]
Teaching without words,
Performing without actions:
That is the Master’s way.
[…]
The Master arrives without leaving,
Sees the light without looking,
Achieves without doing a thing.
[…]
The Master is above the people,
And no one feels oppressed.
She goes ahead of the people,
And no feels manipulated.
The whole world is grateful to her.
Because she completes with no one,
No one can complete with her.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: above, actions, ahead, arrive, complete, depths, do, enough, flower, fruit, leave, manipulate, master, oppressed, power, powerful, reach, surface, truly, words24 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Abstaining from speech marks him who is obeying the spontaneity of his nature.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“If we could renounce our benevolence and discard our righteousness, the people would again become filial and kindly.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.”
― Lao Tzu, The Sayings Of Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Therefore the sage puts his own person last, and yet it is found in the foremost place; he treats his person as if it were foreign to him, and yet that person is preserved.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“All difficult things in the world are sure to arise from a previous state in which they were easy, and all great things from one in which they were small.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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The RZA
“Knowing others is wisdom. Knowing yourself is Enlightenment. - Lao-Tzu”
― The RZA, The Tao of Wu
tags: wisdom23 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“He who speaks does not know; he who knows does not speak”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The master dwells in the substantial and not in the superficial. Rests in the fruit and not in the flower.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“It is the child that sees the primordial secret of Nature and it is the child of ourselves we return to. the child within us is simple and daring enough to live the Secret.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it”
― Lao Tzu
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“Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.”
― Brother David Steindl-Rast, Jesus and Lao Tzu: The Parallel Sayings
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Lao Tzu
“Your inner being guard, and keep it free.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Racing and hunting madden our minds.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“the skilful speaker says nothing that can be found fault with or blamed;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The sage shuns excess, shuns grandiosity, shuns arrogance.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Wasting energy to obtain rare objects only impedes one's growth.”
― Lao-Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“He who is satisfied with his lot is rich;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“What is a good man but a bad man's teacher. What is a bad man but a good man's job.”
― Lao Tzu
“Therefore the sage, in the exercise of his government, empties their minds, fills their bellies, weakens their wills, and strengthens their bones.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The highest excellence is like (that of) water.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don’t need him.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: lao-tzu, leadership, leadership-development20 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“He who is contented is rich.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“One who understands others has knowledge; one who understands himself has wisdom. Mastering others requires force; mastering the self needs strength.”
― Lao-Tzu
“Manage affairs before they are in a mess.”
― Lao Tzu
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“He who stands on his tiptoes does not stand firm; he who stretches his legs does not walk (easily).”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The way is easy stay on the path.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Know glory but cleave to humiliation.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“So it is that existence and non-existence give birth the one to (the idea of) the other;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Thirty spokes
Share one hub.
Make the nothing therein appropriate, and you will have the use of the cart.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (Chinese Classics
tags: beauty, inspirational19 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“When gold and jade fill the hall, their possessor cannot keep them safe.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“he who knows himself is intelligent.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“he who is self-conceited has no superiority allowed to him.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“not to show them what is likely to excite their desires is the way to keep their minds from disorder.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Learn from the people
Plan with the people
Begin with what they have
Build on what they know
Of the best leaders
When the task is accomplished
The people will remark
We have done it ourselves.”
― Lao-tzu
“The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“If the force of arms is considered the only means of authority, it is not an auspicious instrument.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The sage has in the world an appearance of indecision, and keeps his mind in a state of indifference to all.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“So it is that some things are increased by being diminished, and others are diminished by being increased.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: religion18 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“All in the world know the beauty of the beautiful, and in doing this they have (the idea of) what ugliness is;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Therefore the sufficiency of contentment is an enduring and unchanging sufficiency.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“The thirty spokes unite in the one nave; but it is on the empty space (for the axle), that the use of the wheel depends.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“A skilful (commander) strikes a decisive blow, and stops.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The perception of what is small is (the secret of clear- sightedness; the guarding of what is soft and tender is (the secret of) strength.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Be simply yourself and don't compare or compete”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“No one can insult me, because I do not want respect.
No one can defeat me, because I have given up the idea of winning.
How can you defeat me? You can only defeat someone who wants to win.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The skilful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels or footsteps”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself”
― Lao Tzu
tags: meditation, mind-body-spirit, stillness-of-the-mind16 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“When the great Tao is forgotten,
goodness and piety appear.
When the body's intelligence declines,
cleverness and knowledge step forth.
When there is no peace in the family,
filial piety begins.
When the country falls into chaos,
patriotism is born.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: tao15 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“The great Way is easy,
yet people prefer the side paths.
Be aware when things are out of balance.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds
whatever we want.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Those who possessed in highest degree the attributes (of the Tao) did not (seek) to show them, and therefore they possessed them (in fullest measure).”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Care about people´s approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back, the only path to serenity.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.”
“The words of truth are always paradoxical.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The sage puts herself last and is first.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“He who feels punctured
Must once have been a bubble,
He who feels unarmed
Must have carried arms,
He who feels belittled
Must have been consequential,
He who feels deprived
Must have had privilege.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“When things flourish they decline.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Three men in ten conserve life; three men in ten pursue death. Three men also in ten desire to live, but there acts hasten their journey to the house of death. Why is this? Because of their efforts to preserve life.”
― Lao-Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“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 winning.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: affirmation, affirmations, age, aging-parents, alzheimer, alzheimer-s, alzheimers, awareness, caregiving-motivational-quotes, caregiving-quotes, caring-for-others, conscious, dementia, elder-care, enlighten, hope, journey, mindfulness, positive-quotes, positive-thinking, positive-thought, positivity, quote, quotes-and-sayings, quotes-of-life, teaching, thoughts, wise-words14 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“The gentlest thing in the world
overcomes the hardest thing in the world.
That which has no substance
enters where there is no space.
This shows the value of non-action.
Teaching without words,
performing without actions:
that is the Master's way.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“To Know others is perceptive,
to know yourself is wise.
To conquer others is forceful,
to conquer yourself is strong.”
― Laotzi (Lao Tzu)
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Lao Tzu
“When things (in the vegetable world) have displayed their luxuriant growth, we see each of them return to its root.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“To avoid disappointment, know what is sufficient. To avoid trouble, know when to stop. If you are able to do this, you will last a long time.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Who acts in stillness finds stillness in his life.”
― Lao Tzu & A J Girling - translator
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Lao Tzu
“from self-boasting, and therefore his merit is acknowledged;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“from self-complacency, and therefore he acquires superiority.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Therefore the sage seeks to satisfy (the craving of) the belly, and not the (insatiable longing of the) eyes.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Chase after money and security
And your heart will never unclench.
Care about people's approval
And you will be their prisoner.
Do your work, then step back.
The only path to serenity.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: serenity13 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“If you don’t stand sincere by your words
how sincere can the people be?
Take great care over words, treasure them.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: words-have-power13 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“The violent and strong do not die their natural death. I will make this the basis of my teaching.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The farther that one goes out (from himself), the less he knows.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“he who asserts his own views is not distinguished;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“He who talks more is sooner exhausted.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“he who vaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The first is gentleness; the second is economy; and the third is shrinking from taking precedence of others.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Heaven and earth do not act from (the impulse of) any wish to be benevolent; they deal with all things as the dogs of grass are dealt with.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.”
― Lao-Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Intellectual knowledge exists in and of the brain.
Because the brain is part of the body, which must one day expire, this collection of facts, however large and impressive, will expire as well.
Insight, however, is a function of the spirit.
Because your spirit follows you through cycle after cycle of life, death, and rebirth, you have the opportunity of cultivating insight in an ongoing fashion.
Refined over time, insight becomes pure, constant, and unwavering.
This is the beginning of immortality.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: brian-walker, hua-hu-ching, lao-tzu, taoism
“Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, earnestly carry it into practice.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes it law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
tags: taoism, universe12 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Simplicity without a name
Is free from all external aim.
With no desire, at rest and still,
All things go right as of their will.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Rather than act like the lord of the manor,
I would rather behave like a guest.
Rather than advance an inch,
I would rather retreat a foot.”
― Lao Tzu's "Tao"
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Lao Tzu
“no calamity greater than to be discontented with one's lot;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The sage produces without possessing, acts without expectations, and accomplishes without abiding in her accomplishments. It is precisely because she does not abide in them that they never leave her.”
― Lao Tzu
“Possessing rare treasures brings about harmful behavior.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The kingdom is a spirit-like thing, and cannot be got by active doing.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“He who would so win it destroys it; he who would hold it in his grasp loses it.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Someone who is too insistent in his own views finds few to agree with him.”
― Lao-Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Hence the sage puts away excessive effort, extravagance, and easy indulgence.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Choose food, clothing, and shelter that accords with nature.Rely on your own body for transportation. Allow your work and your recreation to be one and the same. Do exercise that develops your whole being and not just your body. Listen to music that bridges the three spheres of your being. Choose leaders for their virtue rather than their wealth or power. Serve others and cultivate yourself simultaneously. Understand that true growth comes from meeting and solving problems of life in a way that is harmonizing to yourself and to others. If you can follow these simple old ways, you will be continually renewed.”
― Lao Tzu, Hua Hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu
tags: being, exercise, service, solving-problems, tao, understanding-oneself, wisdom12 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“But if desire always within us be,”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Heaven's net is wide, but its mesh is fine”
― Lao Tzu
tags: heaven, inspirational
“Keep life and lose those other things;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Lao Tzu
"The key to growth is the introduction
of higher dimensions of consciousness
into our awareness.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: spiritual-sayings, spiritual-wisdom11 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“When the world knows beauty as beauty, ugliness arises.”
― Lao Tzu
“The space between Heaven and Earth---is it not like a bellows?”
― Lao-Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Too many words cause exhaustion
[In the mind or from the mouth]
Better to abide in stillness”
― Lao Tzu & A J Girling - translator
tags: lao-tzu, stillness, tao, tao-te-ching
“The World has a First Cause, which may be regarded as the Mother of the World. When one has found the Mother, one can know the Child. Knowing the Child and still keeping the Mother, to the end of his days he shall suffer no harm.”
― Lao Tzu, The Sayings Of Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“When I let go of who I am, I become who I might be.”
― Lao Tzu
“The partial becomes complete; the crooked, straight; the empty, full; the worn out, new.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“To those who are good (to me), I am good;
and to those who are not good (to me), I am also good;—
and thus (all) get to be good.
To those who are sincere (with me), I am sincere;
and to those who are not sincere (with me), I am also sincere;—
and thus (all) get to be sincere.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“If any one should wish to get the kingdom for himself, and to effect this by what he does, I see that he will not succeed.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Quien conoce a los demás es inteligente. Quien se conoce a sí mismo tiene visión interna. Quien conquista a los demás tiene fuerza; quien se conquista a sí mismo es realmente poderoso.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Lao Tzu. "Just try to make sure that you step in the right direction.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout; the tower of nine storeys rose from a (small) heap of earth; the journey of a thousand li commenced with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Who can (make) the muddy water (clear)?”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Therefore the sage manages affairs without doing anything, and conveys his instructions without the use of speech.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Make the earth a dwelling place. Cultivate the heart and mind. Practice benevolence. Stand by your word. Govern with equity. Serve skillfully. Act in a timely way, without contentiousness, free of blame.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A New Translation
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Lao Tzu
“Emptiness appears barren
yet is infinite fullness”
― Lao Tzu & A J Girling - translator
tags: lao-tzu, tao-te-ching, taoism9 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Peace is our original state”
― Lao Tzu & A J Girling - translator
tags: lao-tzu, peace, tao, tao-te-ching9 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“There is no guilt greater than to sanction ambition;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Therefore the sage holds in his embrace the one thing (of humility), and manifests it to all the world.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Allow your life to unfold naturally Know that it too is a vessel of perfection Just as you breathe in and breathe out Sometimes you’re ahead and other times behind Sometimes you’re strong and other times weak Sometimes you’re with people and other times alone”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The New Translation from Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition
“If we could renounce our artful contrivances and discard our (scheming for) gain, there would be no thieves nor robbers.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Peace in Every step”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Creating without claiming. Doing without taking credit. Guiding without interfering. This is primal virtue.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Stillness and tranquility set things in order in the universe.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Calm and repose are what he prizes; victory (by force of arms) is to him undesirable.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“It is through their not being full of themselves that they can afford to seem worn and not appear new and complete.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“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.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Truly good people are not aware of their goodness, And are therefore good.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge”
― Lao Tzu
tags: knowledge, predict8 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Have done with learning,
And you will have no more vexation.
How great is the difference between "eh" and "o"?
What is the distinction between "good" and "evil"?
Must I fear what others fear?
What abysmal nonsense this is!
All men are joyous and beaming,
As though feasting upon a sacrificial ox,
As though mounting the Spring Terrace;
I alone am placid and give no sign,
Like a babe which has not yet smiled.
I alone am forlorn as one who has no home to return to.
All men have enough and to spare:
I alone appear to possess nothing.
What a fool I am!
What a muddled mind I have!
All men are bright, bright:
I alone am dim, dim.
All men are sharp, sharp:
I alone am mum, mum!
Bland like the ocean,
Aimless like the wafting gale.
All men settle down in their grooves:
I alone am stubborn and remain outside.
But wherein I am most different from others is
In knowing to take sustenance from my Mother!”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Why is the sea king of a hundred streams?
Because it lies below them.
This is why the sea is king of a hundred streams.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Too much thinking causes confusion and anxiety
better to stick with the simplicity of Tao”
― Lao Tzu & A J Girling - translator
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Lao Tzu
“He who knows other men is discerning;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Not to value and employ men of superior ability is the way to keep the people from rivalry among themselves;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Let movement go on, and the condition of rest will gradually arise.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“We should blunt our sharp points, and unravel the complications of things; we should attemper our brightness, and bring ourselves into agreement with the obscurity of others.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Therefore, what has a (positive) existence serves for profitable adaptation, and what has not that for (actual) usefulness.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“With these three qualities, it cannot be made the subject of description; and hence we blend them together and obtain The One.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Quien conoce su ignorancia revela la más profunda sabiduría.
Quien ignora su ignorancia vive en la más profunda ilusión.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Who can (make) the muddy water (clear)? Let it be still, and it will gradually become clear. Who can secure the condition of rest? Let movement go on, and the condition of rest will gradually arise.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Action should be taken before a thing has made its appearance; order should be secured before disorder has begun.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The giant tree starts out as the tiniest shoot, the tallest tower starts out as a single brick, the longest journey starts with the first step.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Then appeared wisdom and shrewdness, and there ensued great hypocrisy.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The knowledge of that unchanging rule produces a (grand) capacity and forbearance, and that capacity and forbearance lead to a community (of feeling with all things).”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The strong wind cannot last the whole morning, the torrential rain cannot last all day. It is nature that causes these things, but even nature cannot cause them to go on forever. If nature cannot do this, then certainly man cannot do so.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“If you want to awaken all of humanity,
then awaken all of yourself.
If you want to eliminate suffering in the world,
then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself.
For truly, the greatest gift you have to offer humanity,
is your own transformation.
~Lao Tzu”
― Lao Tzu
tags: inspirational-quotes7 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“The pot's use comes from emptiness.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“There is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water, and yet for attacking things that are firm and strong there is nothing that can take precedence of it;—for there is nothing (so effectual) for which it can be changed.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The great Tao (or way) is very level and easy; but people love the by-ways.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“When he has cleansed away the most mysterious sights (of his imagination), he can become without a flaw.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The getting that (favour) leads to the apprehension (of losing it), and the losing it leads to the fear of (still greater calamity):—this is what is meant by saying that favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“If its deep mystery we would sound;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“How can one know the eternal origin?
By letting go of ideas
and allowing it to reveal itself”
― Lao Tzu & A J Girling - translator
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Lao Tzu
“Earth is a divine organism
it cannot be successfully manipulated
Who attempts manipulation will encounter defeat”
― Lao Tzu & A J Girling - translator
tags: lao-tzu, tao-te-ching, taoism7 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Revere the unity of all-that-is
carry out your daily activities with compassion;
if you do not limit your compassion,
you yourself will not be limited.”
― Lao Tzu & A J Girling - translator
tags: compassion, lao-tzu, tao, tao-te-ching, unity7 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“Thus Spoke Zarathustra (German: Also sprach Zarathustra, sometimes translated Thus Spake Zarathustra), subtitled A Book for All and None (Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen), is a written work by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885. Much of the work deals with ideas such as the "eternal recurrence of the same", the parable on the "death of God", and the "prophecy" of the Overman, which were first introduced in The Gay Science.
Described by Nietzsche himself as "the deepest ever written", the book is a dense and esoteric treatise on philosophy and morality, featuring as protagonist a fictionalized Zarathustra. A central irony of the text is that the style of the Bible is used by Nietzsche to present ideas of his which fundamentally oppose Judaeo-Christian morality and tradition.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Practice non-action.
Work without doing.
Magnify the small;
increase the few.
Reward bitterness with care.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: lao-tzu, tao, taoism7 likesLike
Lao Tzu
“This returning to their root is what we call the state of stillness; and that stillness may be called a reporting that they have fulfilled their appointed end.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Seeing our own smallness is called insight, honoring our own tenderness is called strenght.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The difficulty in governing the people arises from their having much knowledge.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Heaven and Earth (under its guidance) unite together and send down the sweet dew, which, without the directions of men, reaches equally everywhere as of its own accord.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“So, he who has the attributes (of the Tao) regards (only) the conditions of the engagement, while he who has not those attributes regards only the conditions favorable to himself.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“He who conquers other has force; he who conquers himself has strength.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Constant action overcomes cold; being still overcomes heat.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Because he does not strive, no one finds it possible to strive with him.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“All things return (to their root and disappear), and do not know that it is it which presides over their doing so;—it may be named in the greatest things.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The simple child again, free from all stains.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“When there is no desire, all things are at peace.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The multitude of men look satisfied and pleased; as if enjoying a full banquet, as if mounted on a tower in spring. I alone seem listless and still, my desires having as yet given no indication of their presence. I am like an infant which has not yet smiled. I look dejected and forlorn, as if I had no home to go to. The multitude of men all have enough and to spare. I alone seem to have lost everything. My mind is that of a stupid man; I am in a state of chaos.
Ordinary men look bright and intelligent, while I alone seem to be benighted. They look full of discrimination, while I alone am dull and confused. I seem to be carried about as on the sea, drifting as if I had nowhere to rest. All men have their spheres of action, while I alone seem dull and incapable, like a rude borderer.
(Thus) I alone am different from other men, but I value the nursing-mother (the Tao).”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“When I let go of what I am
I become what I might be.”
― Lao Tzu
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“It is also a part of the cosmic law that what you say and do determines what happens in your life.”
― Brian Browne Walker, Hua hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Thirty spokes converge at the hub,
but emptiness completes the wheel.
Clay is shaped to make a pot,
and what’s useful is its emptiness.
Carve fine doors and windows,
but the room is useful in its emptiness.
What is
is beneficial, while what is not
also proves useful.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Therefore he who would administer the kingdom, honouring it as he honours his own person, may be employed to govern it, and he who would administer it with the love which he bears to his own person may be entrusted with it.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Simplicity without a name Is free from all external aim.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“He who defines himself can't know who he really is.
He who has power over others can't empower himself.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Porque cree en sí mismo,
no intenta convencer a otros.
Porque está conforme
consigo mismo,
no necesita la aprobación de otros.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“I know hereby what advantage belongs to doing nothing (with a purpose).”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Un buen viajero no tiene planes fijos y no tiene intención de llegar.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Quien conoce a los otros es sabio; quien se conoce a sí mismo es iluminado.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“For regulating the human (in our constitution) and rendering the (proper) service to the heavenly, there is nothing like moderation.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Life must be poetry, a song, a dance, like a flower on the roadside, blossoming for no one in particular, but spreading its fragrance in the wind, and sending it anywhere.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“To those who are good (to me), I am good;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“What all men fear is indeed to be feared;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“The people make light of dying because of the greatness of their labours in seeking for the means of living.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The wise consider themselves “orphaned,” “widowed,” and “worthless.” Their humility is the source of their strength.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“We try to grasp it, and do not get hold of it, and we name it 'the Subtle.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Abstaining from speech marks him who is obeying the spontaneity of his nature. A violent wind does not last for a whole morning; a sudden rain does not last for the whole day. To whom is it that these (two) things are owing? To Heaven and Earth. If Heaven and Earth cannot make such (spasmodic) actings last long, how much less can a man!”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“not to prize articles which are difficult to procure is the way to keep them from becoming thieves;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“From this community of feeling comes a kingliness of character; and he who is king-like goes on to be heaven-like.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“When the greatness of Tao is present action arises from one’s own heart When the greatness of Tao is absent action comes from the rules of “kindness” and “justice” If you need rules to be kind and just, if you act virtuous, this is a sure sign that virtue is absent Thus we see the great hypocrisy Only when the family loses its harmony do we hear of “dutiful sons” Only when the state is in chaos do we hear of “loyal ministers”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The New Translation from Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition
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Lao Tzu
“A man should love others as himself and also their parents as his own.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Is it not because he has no personal and private ends, that therefore such ends are realised?”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“If you give evil nothing to oppose, then virtue will return by itself.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Why do the people starve? It is because those at the top eat too much, and taxes are too high. This is why the people starve. Why are the people difficult to lead? It is because those in authority are meddlesome in their affairs. This is why the people are difficult to lead.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The ego is a monkey catapulting through the jungle: fascinated by the realm of the senses it swings from one desire to the next, one conflict to the next. Let this monkey go. Let desires go. Let conflicts go. Let ideas go. Just remain in the center, watching.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“A sage traveling all day
is never far from the supplies in his cart,
and however spectacular the views
he remains calm and composed.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The stiff and unyielding are the companions of death, while the yielding and tender are the companions of life. Therefore we see that unbending armies cannot conquer, and the strongest tree feels the axe. The mighty will fall down low, but the humble will rise up.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“What calamity is greater than no contentment,
and what flaw greater than the passion for gain.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“If you show yourself, you will not be seen. If you affirm yourself, you will not shine.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“A person who prematurely believes that they comprehend the Tao sees only its external luster, and this is the beginning of delusion.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“All in the world think themselves great, but the great are not concerned. Indeed, only by not being concerned can they be great. If they cared about being great, they’d eventually become petty.”
― Lao Tzu, The Original Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The path into the light seems dark, the path forward seems to go back, the direct path seems long.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Heaven is long-enduring and earth continues long.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
― Lao Tzu, Thoughts for the Free Life from Lao Tsu to the Present
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Lao Tzu
“Those who would take over the earth
And shape it to their will
Never, I notice, succeed.
The earth is like a vessel so sacred
That at the mere approach of the profane
It is marred
And when they reach out their fingers it is gone.
For a time in the world some force themselves ahead
And some are left behind,
For a time in the world some make a great noise
And some are held silent,
For a time in the world some are puffed fat
And some are kept hungry,
For a time in the world some push aboard
And some are tipped out:
At no time in the world will a man who is sane
Over-reach himself,
Over-spend himself,
Over-rate himself.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“from self-assertion, and therefore he is distinguished;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“the mind is just as immeasurable as the vast universe. An integral being settles his mind just as the vast universe settles itself. He unites his mind with the unnamable Subtle Origin of the multi-universe in which there is no past, present or future. This is how an integral being deals with his mind.”
― Lao Tzu, Hua Hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“What makes me liable to great calamity is my having the body (which I call myself); if I had not the body, what great calamity could come to me?”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“It is only by this moderation that there is effected an early return (to man's normal state).”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Therefore the sage desires what (other men) do not desire, and does not prize things difficult to get; he learns what (other men) do not learn, and turns back to what the multitude of men have passed by.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The door and windows are cut out (from the walls) to form an apartment; but it is on the empty space (within), that its use depends.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“He who (tries to) govern a state by his wisdom is a scourge to it; while he who does not (try to) do so is a blessing.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“When the Great Tao (Way or Method) ceased to be observed, benevolence and righteousness came into vogue.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Gravity is the root of lightness;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“He who knows other men is discerning;
he who knows himself is intelligent.
He who overcomes others is strong;
he who overcomes himself is mighty.
He who is satisfied with his lot is rich;
he who goes on acting with energy has a (firm) will.
He who does not fail in the requirements of his position, continues long;
he who dies and yet does not perish, has longevity.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The reality of the building does not consist of the roof and walls, but the space within to be lived.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Perfect tranquillity is the way of heaven and earth.”
― Lao Tzu & A J Girling - translator
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Lao Tzu
“Misery and fortune share a trust.
Happiness hides in misery.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“For the sage
Heaven and Earth join
in bestowing the greatest gifts”
― Lao Tzu & A J Girling - translator
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Lao Tzu
“The mark of a moderate man
is freedom from his own ideas.
Tolerant like the sky,
all-pervading like sunlight,
firm like a mountain,
supple like a tree in the wind,
he has no destination in view
and makes use of anything
life happens to bring his way.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“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.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Anything great is long in making.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“In the highest antiquity, (the people) did not know that there were (their rulers).”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“In the next age they loved them and praised them.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Weapons are never the implements of good fortune, and they are to be detested. Therefore, the wise leader avoids them. Normally the wise leader values patience, but when at war he values action. Since he is opposed to the use of weapons, he uses them only when it is unavoidable, and even then with great restraint. To praise victory in war is to rejoice in the slaughter of men. The slaughter of men causes grief and sorrow to the people, therefore he who rejoices in this will not be successful. Fortune follows the restrained, misfortune follows the ambitious. Therefore victory in war should not be celebrated, but instead should be met with mourning.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Big trees grow from sprouts, tall buildings rise from mounds of earth; the loftiest heights start at your feet.”
― Lao Tzu, The Original Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“that difficulty and ease produce the one (the idea of) the other;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“against war
Weapons are unhappy tools,
not chosen by thoughtful people,
to be used only when there is no choice,
and with a calm, still mind,
without enjoyment.
To enjoy using weapons
is to enjoy killing people,
and to enjoy killing people
is to lose your share in the common good. ...”
― Lao Tzu
“The secret waits for eyes unclouded by longing.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Gently eliminating all obstacles to his own understanding, he constantly maintains his unconditional sincerity. His humility, perseverance, and adaptability evoke the response of the universe and fill him with divine light.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“There was something undifferentiated and yet complete which existed before heaven and earth
soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change.
It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe.”
― Lao-Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Their work was done and their undertakings were successful, while the people all said, 'We are as we are, of ourselves!”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“All things under heaven sprang from It as existing (and named); that existence sprang from”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“It as non-existent (and not named).”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Colors blind the eye.
Sounds deafen the ear.
Flavors numb the taste.
Thoughts weaken the mind.
Desires wither the heart.
The Master observes the world
but trusts his inner vision.
He allows things to come and go.
His heart is open as the sky.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Work at things before they’ve begun
and establish order before confusion sets in,
for a tree you can barely reach around
grows from the tiniest rootlet,
a nine-tiered tower
starts as a basket of dirt,
a thousand-mile journey
begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Highly evolved people have their own conscience as pure law.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Cuando me despojo de lo que soy, me torno en lo que podría ser.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, you must first allow it to flourish. If you want to take something, you must first allow it to be given. This is called the subtle perception of the way things are. The soft overcomes the hard. The slow overcomes the fast. Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“La liberación del deseo conduce a la paz interior.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Look for it, and it can’t be seen.
Listen for it, and it can’t be heard.
Grasp for it, and it can’t be caught.
These three cannot be further described,
so we treat them as The One.
It’s highest is not bright.
It’s depths are not dark.
Unending, unnameable, it returns to nothingness.
Formless forms, and image less images,
subtle, beyond all understanding.
Approach it and you will not see a beginning;
follow it and there will be 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.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Colour's five hues from th' eyes their sight will take;
Music's five notes the ears as deaf can make;
The flavours five deprive the mouth of taste;
The chariot course, and the wild hunting waste
Make mad the mind; and objects rare and strange,
Sought for, men's conduct will to evil change.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“If you don’t stand sincere by your words
how sincere can the people be?
Take great care over words, treasure them.
1.17”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“To know people is wisdom, but to know yourself is enlightenment. To master people takes force, but to master yourself takes strength. To know contentment is wealth, and to live with strength resolve. To never leave whatever you are is to abide, and to die without getting lost - that is to live on and on.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“They shall wear elegant and ornamented robes, carry a sharp sword at their girdle, pamper themselves in eating and drinking, and have a superabundance of property and wealth;—such (princes) may be called robbers and boasters.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The sages do not act from (any wish to be) benevolent; they deal with the people as the dogs of grass are dealt with.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“May not the space between heaven and earth be compared to a bellows?”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“People are mysterious entities – try to take hold of them and you will only lose them. Thus, sometimes it is better to show the way, and sometimes it is better to follow.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“that (the ideas of) height and lowness arise from the contrast of the one with the other;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“the more implements to add to their profit that the people have, the greater disorder is there in the state and clan;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“If you don't realize the source, you stumble in confusion and sorrow. When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, disinterested, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, dignified as a king”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“When it once has that name, (men) can know to rest in it. When they know to rest in it, they can be free from all risk of failure and error.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Great, it passes on (in constant flow).”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“When there is this abstinence from action, good order is universal.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Two names emerge from a single origin and both are called mysterious.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Do that which consists in taking no action;
Pursue that which is not meddlesome;
Savor that which has no flavor.
Make the small big and the few many;
Do good to him who has done you an injury.
Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult;
Make something big by starting with it when small.
Difficult things in the word must needs have their beginnings in the easy;
Big things must needs have their beginnings in the small.
Therefore it is because the sage never attempts to be great that he succeeds in becoming great.
One who makes promises rashly rarely keeps good faith;
One who is in the habit of considering things easy meets with frequent difficulties.
Therefore even the sage treats some things as difficult.
That is why in the end no difficulties can get the better of him.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Misery!—happiness is to be found by its side!”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Its upper part is not bright, and its lower part is not obscure.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching
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Lao Tzu
“For to be over-developed is to hasten decay, and this is against Tao, and what is against Tao will soon cease to be.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“He assists in developing people but he does not presume ownership over them.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“they all know the skill of the skilful, and in doing this they have (the idea of) what the want of skill is.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“He constantly (tries to) keep them without knowledge and without desire, and where there are those who have knowledge, to keep them from presuming to act (on it).”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Nature does not play favourites, it regards its creations without sentimentality. Therefore the wise person also acts in this way.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The excellence of a residence is in (the suitability of) the place;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Quand l’esprit humain, absolument arrêté, est complètement vide et calme, il est un miroir pur et net, capable de mirer l’essence ineffable et innommable du Principe lui-même.”
― Lao Tzu, Lao Tseu: Tao Te King
“Therefore the sage knows (these things) of himself, but does not parade (his knowledge); loves, but does not (appear to set a) value on, himself.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Those who possessed the highest (sense of) propriety were (always seeking) to show it, and when men did not respond to it, they bared the arm and marched up to them.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Thirty spokes share one hub in non-being lies the use of the cart knead clay to make vessels in non-being lies the use of the vessel cut out doors and windows to make a house
therefore form being comes what is usable and from non-being comes what is essential.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Practicing kindness and selflessness, you naturally align your life with the Integral Way. Aligning your life with the Integral Way, you begin to eliminate the illusory boundaries between people and societies, between darkness and light, between life and death.”
― Brian Browne Walker, Hua hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Live in a good place. Keep your mind deep. Treat others well. Stand by your word. Make fair rules. Do the right thing. Work when it's time.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“One who knows does not say it; one who says does not know it. Block the openings, Shut the doors, Soften the glare, Follow along old wheel tracks; Blunt the point, Untangle the knots. This is known as dark identity. Thus you cannot get close to it, nor can you keep it at arms length; you cannot bestow benefit on it, nor can you do it harm; you cannot ennoble it, nor can you debase it. Hence it is the most valued.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth.This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.”
― Lao -tzu
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Lao Tzu
“GOODNESS True goodness is like water;
it nurtures everything and harms nothing.
Like water, it ever seeks the lowest place,
the place that all others avoid. This is the way of the Tao.
For a dwelling it chooses the quiet meadow;
for a heart the circling eddy. In generosity it is kind;
in speech it is sincere;
in power it is order;
in action it is gentle;
in movement it is rhythm. Because it is always peaceable,
it soothes and refreshes.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The more people have weapons, the more the state is in confusion.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching Taoism Ultimate Collection
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Lao Tzu
“Favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared; honour and great calamity, to be regarded as personal conditions (of the same kind).”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Whoever knows what is enough Will be happy with his fate.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Book of The Way and its Virtue
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Lao Tzu
“With those who are kind
the sage is kind
With those who are not kind
the sage is also kind
because the way of Tao is kindness”
― Lao Tzu & A J Girling - translator
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Lao Tzu
“To lead people, walk beside them.”
― Lao Tzu
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“When one gives undivided attention to the (vital) breath, and brings it to the utmost degree of pliancy, he can become as a (tender) babe.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The sage, while clad in homespun, conceals on his person a priceless piece of jade.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“To know non-knowing is optimal
to imagine one knows
is affliction of mind”
― Lao Tzu & A J Girling - translator
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Lao Tzu
“he who goes on acting with energy has a (firm) will.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“He who overcomes others is strong;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.”
― Lao Tzu
“Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people your results.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“he who devotes himself to the Tao (seeks) from day to day to diminish (his doing).”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“One who speaks does not know One who knows does not speak”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The New Translation from Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition
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“Stop thinking and end your problems.” ― Lao Tzu”
― Joseph Nguyen, Don't Believe Everything You Think
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Lao Tzu
“Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them. Therefore it is the king of a hundred streams.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Practice emptiness to the extreme.
Keep stillness whole.
Myriad things act in concert.
I therefore watch their return.
All things flourish, and each returns to its root.
Return to the root is called Quietude.
Quietude is called Way of Life.
Way of Life is called Constant.
Acting without knowing this constant can be harmful.
Understanding this Constant is called receptivity, which is impartial.
Impartiality is Kingship.
Kingship is Heaven.
Heaven is the Tao.
Though you lose the body, you do not die.”
― Lao Tzu (author) Yi Ping Ong (Translator)
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Lao Tzu
“ruin. To do good, work well, and lie low is the way of the blessing.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
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Lao Tzu
“Peaceful tranquility – this is the right way in the world.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Contentment alone is enough Indeed, the bliss of eternity can be found in your contentment”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The New Translation from Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition
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Lao Tzu
“To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The Master stays behind; that is why she is ahead. She is detached from all things; that is why she is one with them. Because she has let go of herself, she is perfectly fulfilled.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Not asserted, therefore known, Not boasted of, therefore of worth, Not contentious, so enduring. It’s because the wise do not contend, That no one can contend with them.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Book of The Way and its Virtue
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Lao Tzu
“Those who do not lose their base endure. Those who die but do not perish have longevity.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Wild winds never last all morning
and fierce rains never last all day.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“When its work is accomplished, it does not claim the name of having done it.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The Tao that can be described is not the enduring and unchanging Tao.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. A good artist lets their intuition take them wherever it wants to.”
― Lao-Tzu, Lao-tzu’s Tao and Wu Wei: With Linked Table of Contents
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Lao Tzu
“For things sometimes lead and sometimes follow,
sometimes sign and sometimes storm,
sometimes strengthen and sometimes weaken,
sometimes kill and sometimes die.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Obscure as muddied water. But, with stillness, muddy waters clear. Can you also act while remaining still?”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.”
― Lao-Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.There is no greater guilt than discontentment.And there is no greater disaster than greed.”
― Lao-tzu
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Lao Tzu
“This is called 'the Mysterious Agreement.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and in 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.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Those who speak do not know.
Those who know do not speak.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Laozi was an ancient Chinese philosopher. According to Chinese tradition, Laozi lived in the 6th century BC, however many historians contend that Laozi”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“To know and to think we know not, is the crown. Not to know and to think we know, is the affliction.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The softest thing in the world dashes against and overcomes the hardest; that which has no (substantial) existence enters where there is no crevice.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. Being and non-being create each other.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“When beauty is defined, illusions of non-beauty manifest
When goodness is identified, badness becomes an option”
― Lao Tzu, The Way: According to Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, and Seng Tsan
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Lao Tzu
“Therefore all in the world delight to exalt him and do not weary of him.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“When reconciling great hatred there will some remain. How can it be made good? Therefore the wise man accepts the debit side of the account and does not have to enforce payment from others.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching Taoism Ultimate Collection
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Lao Tzu
“Shrinking looked they like those who wade through a stream in winter;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“He does not dare (by continuing his operations) to assert and complete his mastery.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Used gently, and without the touch of pain.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“When Heaven wants to protect someone does it send an army? No, it protects him with love”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The New Translation from Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition
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Lao Tzu
“But I have heard that he who is skilful in managing the life entrusted to him for a time travels on the land without having to shun rhinoceros or tiger, and enters a host without having to avoid buff coat or sharp weapon.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The grandest forms of active force
From Tao come, their only source.
Who can of Tao the nature tell?
Our sight it flies, our touch as well.
Eluding sight, eluding touch,
The forms of things all in it crouch;
Eluding touch, eluding sight,
There are their semblances, all right.
Profound it is, dark and obscure;
Things' essences all there endure.
Those essences the truth enfold
Of what, when seen, shall then be told.
Now it is so; 'twas so of old.
Its name--what passes not away;
So, in their beautiful array,
Things form and never know decay.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“To illustrate from the case of all females:—the female always overcomes the male by her stillness.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Earth rendered thereby firm and sure;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Have few desires.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The Tao is hidden, and has no name; but it is the Tao which is skilful at imparting (to all things what they need) and making them complete.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“he who is (ever ready to) speak about it does not know it.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The people are difficult to govern because of the (excessive) agency of their superiors (in governing them).”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“We look at it, and we do not see it, and we name it 'the Equable.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The sage does not accumulate (for himself). The more that he expends for others, the more does he possess of his own; the more that he gives to others, the more does he have himself.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Having arrived at this point of non-action, there is nothing which he does not do.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Its gate, from which at first they issued forth,”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“الأراضى المجاورة، قريبةٌ بحيث إنّ أىّ إنسانٍ، يستطيع سماع نباح الكلاب،و صياح الديكة عبر الطريق. إلا أن الناس هنا، يهرَمون، و يموتون، دون أن يتبادلوا كلمةَ واحدةً مع جيرانهم.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Heaven which by it is bright and pure;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The world’s most difficult affairs
begin in easiness.
The world’s greatest affairs
always begin in the small.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“This is what is called 'The mysterious Quality' (of the Tao).”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“that of the mind is in abysmal stillness;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The (state of) vacancy should be brought to the utmost degree, and that of stillness guarded with unwearying vigour.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Your life is a piece of clay; don't let anyone else mold it for you.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“If you know when to stop, you'll suffer no harm. And in this way you can last a very long time.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The Tao, when brightest seen, seems light to lack;
Who progress in it makes, seems drawing back;
Its even way is like a rugged track.
Its highest virtue from the vale doth rise;
Its greatest beauty seems to offend the eyes;
And he has most whose lot the least supplies.
Its firmest virtue seems but poor and low;
Its solid truth seems change to undergo;
Its largest square doth yet no corner show
A vessel great, it is the slowest made;
Loud is its sound, but never word it said;
A semblance great, the shadow of a shade.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you aren’t afraid of dying, there is nothing you can’t achieve. Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter’s place. When you handle the master carpenter’s tools, chances are that you’ll cut yourself.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“He who knows others is wise;
He who knows himself is enlightened.”
― Lao-tzu
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Lao Tzu
“In dwelling, choose modest quarters, in thinking, value stillness, in dealing with others, be kind, in choosing words, be sincere, in leading, be just, in working, be competent, in acting, choose the correct timing.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Do not shine like jade, instead be humble like a rock.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“He who stands on tiptoe doesn’t stand firm. He who rushes ahead doesn’t go far. He who tries to shine dims his own light. He who defines himself can’t know who he really is. He who has power over others can’t empower himself. He who clings to his work will create nothing that endures. If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Thus it was that when faith (in the Tao) was deficient (in the rulers) a want of faith in them ensued (in the people).”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The ten thousand things rise and fall while the self watches their return.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The masters were said to be profound
because they show the greatest wisdom
when comfortable
in Life’s mysterious
and unknown depths”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Be square but do not cut; be sharp but do not stab; be straight forward but do not unrestrained; be bright but do not dazzle.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Men resort to him, and receive no hurt, but (find) rest, peace, and the feeling of ease.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Passing on, it becomes remote. Having become remote, it returns.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Material and infinite are inseparable
Appreciating their interconnectedness
is the gateway to understanding”
― Lao Tzu & A J Girling - translator
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Lao Tzu
“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Bring out the best in yourself,
and you will bring out the best in others.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“When we can lay hold of the Tao of old to direct the things of the present day, and are able to know it as it was of old in the beginning, this is called (unwinding) the clue of Tao.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“We meet it and do not see its Front; we follow it, and do not see its Back.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The wise person leads by remaining in the background.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“To live till you die
Is to live long enough”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Therefore a sage has said, 'I will do nothing (of purpose), and the people will be transformed of themselves;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Therefore the place of what is firm and strong is below, and that of what is soft and weak is above.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“That which is meddling, touching everything,”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Stand before it and there is no beginning. Follow it and there is no end. Stay with the ancient Tao, Move with the present.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Unencumbered by any concept of sin, the Master doesn’t see evil as a force to resist, but simply as an opaqueness, a state of self-absorption which is in disharmony with the universal process, so that, as with a dirty window, the light can’t shine through. This freedom from moral categories allows him his great compassion for the wicked and the selfish.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“As you live, so you die”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The New Translation from Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition
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Lao Tzu
“Sometimes you must yield in order to win, and sometimes maintaining a low place leads you to win.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Thus it is that the Great man abides by what is solid, and eschews what is flimsy; dwells with the fruit and not with the flower.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“it produces them and does not claim them as its own;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“When superior people hear guidance, they carry it out diligently and ably. When mediocre people hear guidance, it seems vague and uncertain. When lesser people hear guidance, they laugh.”
― Lao Tzu, The Original Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“However grand and high, would all decay.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Who thinks his great achievements poor
Shall find his vigour long endure.
Of greatest fulness, deemed a void,
Exhaustion ne'er shall stem the tide.
Do thou what's straight still crooked deem;
Thy greatest art still stupid seem,
And eloquence a stammering scream.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The great Tao is universal like a flood… All creatures depend on it, and it denies nothing to anyone. It does its work, but it makes no claims for itself. It clothes and feeds all, but it does not lord it over them.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“When the people have many weapons, the nation grows more benighted.”
― Lao Tzu, The Original Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Let go of rousing speech
and identification with thoughts
Until your end
you will never be jaded”
― Lao Tzu & A J Girling - translator
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Lao Tzu
“When a person puts on a show, trying to appear great, their mediocrity is soon exposed.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Where there are more restrictions and prohibitions, there is also more poverty. Where there are many sharp weapons, there is also more chaos. Where the people are full of clever schemes, there are also strange outcomes. Where there are many laws and edicts, there is also an abundance of criminals. Therefore, the wise person: Practices non-action so that the people are naturally transformed. Welcomes quietude so that the people will naturally be civilized. Does not interfere so that the people will naturally be prosperous.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The ancients were subtle, mysterious, profound, responsive. The depth of their knowledge is unfathomable. Because it is unfathomable,”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“And when (one with the highest excellence) does not wrangle (about his low position), no one finds fault with him.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“He who knows others is clever, but he who knows himself is enlightened.”
― Lao Tzu
“The five colors make man's eyes blind, the five notes make his ears deaf, the five tastes injure his palate.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“But I have three precious things which I prize and hold fast.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“We listen to it, and we do not hear it, and we name it 'the Inaudible.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The ancients were subtle, mysterious, profound, responsive. The depth of their knowledge is unfathomable.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Therefore the sage, while he never does what is great, is able on that account to accomplish the greatest things.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Hence (its way) is near to (that of) the Tao.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The Master, by residing in the Tao,
sets an example for all beings.
Because he doesn't display himself,
people can see his light.
Because he has nothing to prove,
people can trust his words.
Because he doesn't know who he is,
people recognize themselves in him.
Because he has no goal in mind,
everything he does succeeds.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The wise person acts but does not take credit. Leads, but does not rule.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Knowing constancy is enlightenment.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Use convention to govern a state, use surprise in waging war, use disinterest to take the world. How do I know this is so? When there are many taboos in the world, the people grow poorer and poorer. When the people have many weapons, the nation grows more benighted. When the people are very crafty, weird things arise more and more. The greater the articulation of rules of law, the more brigands and outlaws there are. Therefore a wise rulers says, “If I contrive nothing, the people will naturally be civilized. If I am fond of tranquility, the people will naturally be upright. If I am disinterested, the people will naturally become rich. If I want not to want, the people will naturally be innocent.”
― Lao Tzu, The Original Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“if I had not the body, what great calamity could come to me?”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“This is how they are able to continue and endure.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Know the male, but hold to the female. Imagine a river flowing through a valley, never departing from its original path. Do this and you will return to a state of innocence. Perceive the bright, but hold to the dark. Like a river, let yourself flow with virtue, and set a faultless example for the world. Do this and you will return to a state of perfection. Be aware of honour, but hold to humility. Like a valley, let virtue fill you, sufficient yet everlasting. Do this and you will return to the state of the uncarved block.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“And whether a man dispassionately
Sees to the core of life
Or passionately
Sees the surface
They are essentially the same”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The work is done, but how no one can see;
'Tis this that makes the power not cease to be.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“I will be fond of keeping still, and the people will of themselves become correct.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“One who practices virtue and selflessness should not hold any particular idea in his mind about how to fulfill his virtue, for virtue is the very nature of one's being.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“In this way though he has his place above them, men do not feel his weight, nor though he has his place before them, do they feel it an injury to them.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“This world has no need for weapons,
Which soon turn on themselves.
Where armies camp, nettles grow;
After each war, years of famine.
The most fruitful outcome
Does not depend on force,
But succeeds without arrogance
Without hostility
Without pride
Without resistance
Without violence.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“This honouring of the Tao and exalting of its operation is not the result of any ordination, but always a spontaneous tribute.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Very few are aware of the highest. Then comes that which they know and love,”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The gentle outlast the strong The obscure outlast the obvious Hence, a fish that ventures from deep water is soon snagged by a net A country that reveals its strength is soon conquered by an enemy”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The New Translation from Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition
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Lao Tzu
“Those who speak do not know. Those who know do not speak.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Its admirable words can purchase honor; (its) admirable deeds can raise their performer above others.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“El gran gobernante pasa inadvertido por el pueblo. A éste sucede el que es amado y elogiado por el pueblo. Después, el que es temido. Y finalmente, el despreciado.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao te King (Ilustrado)
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Lao Tzu
“Great talents mature slowly.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“HUMILITY The universe is eternal, and earth is lasting. The reason they are eternal and lasting
is that they do not exist for themselves.
That is why they endure. The wise humble themselves—
and because of their humility,
they are worthy of praise. They put others first,
and so become great. They are not focused on outcomes or achievements;
therefore they always succeed.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“A man is born into certain relationships and as a result has certain duties. For instance, he has a duty of loyalty to his lord, a filial duty to his parents, a duty to help his friends, and a duty of common humanity towards his fellow beings.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The wise person treats the good person with goodness, he also treats the bad person with goodness – this is how you become good. The wise person gives the truthful person his trust, he also gives the untruthful his trust – this is how you become trustworthy.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“A man can achieve his own happiness only by pursuing the happiness of others, because it is only by forgetting about his own happiness that he can become happy.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Before the birth of all things, there existed an undifferentiated whole. A solitary void: unchanging, yet operating everywhere, without exhaustion. It is therefore considered the source of everything. I do not know its true name, although some call it Tao. If compelled to characterize it, I would simply call it great. For to be great implies that it is far-reaching, to be far-reaching implies distance, and to be distant implies returning to the source. Thus the Tao is great, Heaven is great, Earth is great, the wise person is also great. In the universe there are four great ones, and the wise person is one of them. The wise person follows the laws of Earth, Earth follows the laws of Heaven, and Heaven follows the law of Tao. The Tao, with nothing to follow, is natural unto itself.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“The people starve because those in authority over them devour too many taxes; that is why they starve.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“He who possesses virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Of every ten three are ministers of life (to themselves); and three are ministers of death.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Possessed of the Tao, he endures long; and to the end of his bodily life, is exempt from all danger of decay.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“many historians contend that Laozi actually lived in the 4th century BC, which was the period of Hundred Schools of Thought and Warring States Period, while others contend he was a mythical figure. Laozi was credited with”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.”
― Lao Tzu
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“When the people are too foolish to recognize danger,
disaster will surely come.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Attain complete emptiness,
Hold fast to stillness.
Understanding the ordinary:
Mind opens.
Mind opening leads to compassion,
Compassion to nobility,
Nobility to heavenliness,
Heavenliness to TAO.
TAO endures.
Your body dies.
There is no danger.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“If you follow the Tao,
you will understand where to stop.
Knowing where to stop,
you will be free from danger.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Holding a cup and overfilling it Cannot be as good as stopping short Pounding a blade and sharpening it Cannot be kept for long Gold and jade fill up the room No one is able to protect them Wealth and position bring arrogance And leave disasters upon oneself When achievement is completed, fame is attained Withdraw oneself This is the Tao of Heaven”
― Lao Tzu
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“Thus the Master is available to all people and doesn’t reject anyone. He is ready to use all situations and doesn’t waste anything. This is called embodying the light. What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher? What is a bad man but a good man’s job? If you don’t understand this, you will get lost, however intelligent you are. It is the great secret.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“There is no greater misfortune than not knowing what is enough. There is no greater fault than the desire to possess.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Those who understand the way do not talk about it, and those who talk about the way do not understand it. Therefore the wise person: Closes his mouth, locks his gates, tempers his sharpness, simplifies his problems, softens his glare. Unite yourself with the low – this is the profound harmony. Where there is no attachment, there is liberation from aversion. Where there is no profit, there is liberation from loss. Where there is no honour, there is liberation from disgrace. Therefore this is the most cherished way on earth.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way. It cannot be gained by interfering”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“The grace of Tao
and divine nature (Te)
are not ordered
but eternal spontaneous
action of the One”
― Lao Tzu & A J Girling - translator
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“Tao ‘is’ before words
and before deeds”
― Lao Tzu & A J Girling - translator
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“Когда все в Поднебесной узнают, что прекрасное является прекрасным,
появляется и безобразное.
Когда все узнают, что доброе является добром, возникает и зло.
Поэтому бытие и небытие порождают друг друга, трудное и легкое создают друг друга, длинное и короткое взаимно соотносятся, высокое и низкое взаимно определяются, звуки, сливаясь, приходят в гармонию,
предыдущее и последующее следуют друг за другом.
Поэтому совершенномудрый, совершая дела, предпочитает недеяние; осуществляя
учение, не прибегает к словам; вызывая изменения вещей, [он] не осуществляет их сам; создавая, не обладает [тем, что создано]; приводя в движение, не прилагает к этому усилий; успешно завершая [что-либо], не
гордится.
Поскольку он не гордится, его заслуги не могут быть отброшены.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Therefore the Tao is great;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“What others fear becomes our wilderness of fear. O, it is endless!”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“To know that unchanging rule is to be intelligent; not to know it leads to wild movements and evil issues.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Following the Universal Way means practicing selflessness and extending virtue to the world unconditionally. In this way one not only eliminates the heavy contamination accumulated throughout many lifetimes but may also bring about the possibility of restoring one's original divine nature and become an integral being of the multi-universe.”
― Lao Tzu, Hua Hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu
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“It is easy to maintain a situation while it is still secure;
It is easy to deal with a situation before symptoms develop;
It is easy to break a thing when it is yet brittle;
It is easy to dissolve a thing when it is yet minute.
Deal with a thing while it is still nothing;
Keep a thing in order before disorder sets in.
A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms
Grows from a downy tip;
A terrace nine storeys high
Rises from hodfuls of earth;
A journey of a thousand miles
Starts from beneath one's feet.
Whoever does anything to it will ruin it;
Whoever lays hold of it will lose it.
Therefore the sage, because he does nothing, never ruins anything;
And, because he does not lay hold of anything, loses nothing.
In their enterprises the people
Always ruin them when on the verge of success.
Be as careful at the end as at the beginning
And there will be no ruined enterprises.
Therefore the sage desires not to desire
And does not value goods which are hard to come by;
Learns to be without learning
And makes good the mistakes of the multitude
In order to help the myriad creatures to be natural and to refrain from daring to act.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“People are mysterious entities – try to take hold of them and you will only lose them.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Guidance is creative, efficacy develops, people give shape, implements complete. That is why all people honor guidance and value efficacy. The nobility of guidance and the value of efficacy are not granted by anyone, but naturally so of themselves. Guidance creates, nurtures, develops, matures, brings to fruition, nourishes, sustains, and shelters. It is creative without possessiveness, constructive without conceit, develops without coercion; this is called unobtrusive efficacy.”
― Lao Tzu, The Original Tao Te Ching
“Laozi was an ancient Chinese philosopher. According to Chinese tradition, Laozi lived in the 6th century BC, however many historians contend that Laozi actually lived in the 4th century BC, which was the period of Hundred Schools of Thought and Warring States Period, while others contend he was a mythical figure. Laozi was credited with writing the seminal Taoist work, the Tao Te Ching, which was originally known as the Laozi. Taishang Laojun was a title for Laozi in the Taoist religion. It refers to One of the Three Pure Ones. Source: Wikipedia”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Plan for the difficult while it is still easy. The greatest things in the world are done while still slight. So wise leaders never do big things; that’s how they achieve greatness.”
― Lao Tzu, The Original Tao Te Ching
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“He who has little can only gain, but gain too much and the way will be lost.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Any good person who is motivated to attain awareness of the whole truth should follow the Universal Way to calm his mind and harmonize it with all aspects of life.”
― Lao Tzu, Hua Hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu
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“Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good. He who knows has no wide learning; he who has wide learning does not know.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“that the musical notes and tones become harmonious through the relation of one with another; and that being before and behind give the idea of one following another.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Cut doors and windows
to make a room.
Where the room isn't,
there's room for you.
So the profit in what is
is in the use of what isn't.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved. Success is the lurking-place of failure; but who can tell when the turning-point will come?”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“When people devote themselves to something
they always ruin it on the verge of success.
Finish with the same care you took in beginning
and you’ll avoid ruining things.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“He who acts (with an ulterior purpose) does harm; he who takes hold of a thing (in the same way) loses his hold.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and crafty.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Truth is revealed to the one who detaches himself from the world, not tempted by anything in it and not distracted by any of its phenomena.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Express yourself completely. Then keep quiet. Be like the forces of nature; When it blows, there is only wind; When it rains, there is only rain; When the clouds pass, the sun shines through.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Therefore a wise prince, marching the whole day, does not go far from his baggage waggons.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Manifest plainness and embrace the genuine; lessen self-interest and make few your desires.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Only when the state is in disorder is there a need for patriotism.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Understanding the ordinary: Mind opens.
Mind opening leads to compassion, Compassion to nobility, Nobility to heavenliness, Heavenliness to TAO.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“To recognize your insignificance is empowering.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“With those who are sincere
the sage is sincere
With those who are insincere
the sage is also sincere
because the way of Tao is sincerity”
― Lao Tzu & A J Girling - translator
“Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Jade is praised as precious,
but its strength is being stone.”
― Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Giving birth without possessing,
animating without subjecting,
fostering without dominating.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“He who conquers others is strong;
He who conquers himself is mighty.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Saberse ignorante es conocimiento.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching. El libro sagrado del taoismo
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“When two great forces oppose each other, the victory will go to the one that knows how to yield.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“He will strike the blow, but will be on his guard against being vain or boastful or arrogant in consequence of it.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Will work but ill, and disappointment bring.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The thirty spokes unite in the one nave; but it is on the empty space (for the axle), that the use of the wheel depends. Clay is fashioned into vessels; but it is on their empty hollowness, that their use depends. The door and windows are cut out (from the walls) to form an apartment; but it is on the empty space (within), that its use depends. Therefore, what has a (positive) existence serves for profitable adaptation, and what has not that for (actual) usefulness.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“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”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Tri nhân giả trí, tự tri giả nhân
Thắng nhân giả hữu lục, tự thắng giả cường
Tri túc giả phú
Cưỡng hành giả hữu chi
Bất thất kỳ sở giả cửu
Tử nhi bất vong giả thọ.
Dịch nghĩa:
Kẻ biết người là có trí
Kẻ biết mình là sáng suốt
Kẻ thắng người ta là có sức
Kẻ tự thắng mình là người mạnh
Kẻ tự cảm thấy đủ là kẻ giàu
Kẻ cố gắng thực hiện (Đạo) là người có chí
Kẻ không bỏ mất cái gốc thì lâu dài
Kẻ chết mà không mất là thọ.”
― Lao Tzu
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“The ancient Masters were profound and subtle.
Their wisdom was unfathomable.
There is no way to describe it;
all we can describe is their appearance.
They were careful
as someone crossing an iced-over stream.
Alert as a warrior in enemy territory.
Courteous as a guest.
Fluid as melting ice.
Shapable as a block of wood.
Receptive as a valley.
Clear as a glass of water.
Do you have the patience to wait
till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
till the right action arises by itself?
The Master doesn’t seek fulfillment..
Not seeking, not expecting,
she is present, and can welcome all things.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself
is Enlightenment.”
― Lao Tzu
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“He who, being a man, remains a woman, becomes a universal channel. Eternal virtue will flow through him. He will become a child again.”
― Lao Tzu, The Book Of The Simple Way Of Laotze: A New Translation From The Text Of The Tao-teh-king
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“To want to rule the world is to want to pamper this body. When you don’t prize this body, you don’t want to rule the world.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: Zen Teachings on the Taoist Classic
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“A wheel may have thirty spokes,
but its usefulness lies in the empty hub. A jar is formed from clay,
but its usefulness lies in the empty center. A room is made from four walls,
but its usefulness lies in the space between.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Thus it is that dignity finds its (firm) root in its (previous) meanness, and what is lofty finds its stability in the lowness (from which it rises).”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“He who stands on his tiptoes does not stand firm; he who stretches his legs does not walk (easily).
(So), he who displays himself does not shine; he who asserts his own views is not distinguished; he who vaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged; he who is self-conceited has no superiority allowed to him.”
― Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching
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“no fault greater than the wish to be getting.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“To clarify muddy waters,
you must hold them still and let things settle.
To glimpse the secret of the Tao,
you must keep still and quiet your mind.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Nichts auf der Welt ist so weich und nachgiebig wie das Wasser. Und doch bezwingt es das Harte und Starke.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“The Legendary Emperor Shun asked one of his Ministers: “Can one Possess the Tao?” “Your own body is not your Possession. How can you Possess the Tao?” “If my own body is not mine, whose is it?” “It is the Form lent you by Heaven and Earth. Your Life is not your Possession. It is a Harmony granted you for a time by Heaven and Earth. Your Life-Destiny is not your Possession. It is a Flow granted you for a time by Heaven and Earth. Your children and grandchildren are not your Possessions. Heaven and Earth have lent them to you to be cast off as an insect sheds its skin. You are the Breath-Energy of Heaven and Earth. How can you ever Possess that?”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Essential Translation of the Ancient Chinese Book of the Way
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“The best athlete
wants his opponent at his best.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Opinion is the barren flower of the Way, the beginning of ignorance.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.”
― Lao Tzu
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“En el centro de tu ser tienes la respuesta; sabes quién eres y sabes qué quieres”.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching. El libro sagrado del taoismo
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“When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Good people do not quarrel. Quarrelsome people are not good.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Where there is lack of faith, There is a lack of respect. Employ reticence, and care with words. When the work is done and the task complete The people will say: ‘It just happened.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Book of The Way and its Virtue
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“Only those who do not use life as a reason for artificialities are intelligently valuing life.”
― Lao Tzu, The Original Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Here are the four fundamentals of true spirituality:
recognize simplicity,
cherish purity,
reduce your possessions,
diminish your desires.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“In a world where ‘likes’ and ‘followers’ define worth, we have become a society of self-promotion and self-indulgence, where the true value of human connection and genuine experience is lost to the endless pursuit of more.”
― Jop Helm
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Lao Tzu
“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Upon disaster depends good fortune;
within good fortune hides disaster.
Where will it end?
For nothing is certain;
what is correct goes astray;
what is right goes wrong.
Our confusion goes on and on.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“He who knows he has enough, is rich”
― Lao Tzu
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“When the world's on the Way,
they use horses to haul manure.
When the world gets off the Way,
they breed warhorses on the common.
The greatest evil: wanting more.
The worst luck: discontent.
Greed's the curse of life.
To know enough's enough
is enough to know.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“The one who detaches and sees from afar sees clearly.”
― Lao Tzu
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“One gains by losing and loses by gaining.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Simplicity without a name Is free from all external aim. With no desire, at rest and still, All things go right as of their will.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“The partial becomes complete; the crooked, straight; the empty, full; the worn out, new. He whose (desires) are few gets them;
he whose (desires) are many goes astray.”
― Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching
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“The way that is bright seems dull. The way forward seems to lead back. The smooth way seems rough. The highest virtue seems a valley. The purest whiteness seems stained. Excessive virtue seems defective. Solid virtue seems inactive.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Book of The Way and its Virtue
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Lao Tzu
“Solo cuando nos cansamos de nuestra enfermedad, dejamos de estar enfermos.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The wise attend to the inner truth of things
and are not fooled by outward appearances.
They ignore matter and seek the spirit.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The Tao is by nature immaterial,
yet all the world calls it great.
It is because the Tao does not put on appearances
that it is great.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“He is free from self-display, and therefore he shines; from self-assertion, and therefore
he is distinguished; from self-boasting, and therefore his merit is acknowledged; from self-complacency, and therefore he acquires
superiority.”
― Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name.”
― Lao Tzu
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“The valley spirit, undying
Is called the Mystic Female
The gateway of the Mystic Female
Is called the root of Heaven and Earth
It flows continuously, barely perceptible
When utilized, it is never exhausted”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Stop trying to imitate what the sages have done. That's past, and though it might have been appropriate at the time, that time is over. The present is alive. Don't use what's dead as a guide to what's alive.”
― Lao Tzu, Waterway: a new translation of the Tao Te Ching and introducing the Wu Wei Ching
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“Connected to everything but attached to nothing. Attachment is rooted in fear. You lose your fear of loss when you realize you're already whole.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The wise wear plain clothes
and keeps their gems out of sight.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“To know that there are some things
you cannot know
is wisdom.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Heaven aids and protects Through compassion.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“A tree too big to embrace
Is born from a slender shoot.
A nine-storey tower
Rises from a pile of earth.
A thousand-mile journey
Begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The wise recognize the limits of their knowledge;
the foolish think they know everything.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“You don’t have to go out the door to know what goes on in the world. You don’t have to look out the window to see the way of heaven. The farther you go, the less you know. So the wise soul doesn’t go, but knows; doesn’t look, but sees; doesn’t do, but gets it done.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
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Lao Tzu
“Something can be beautiful, if something else is ugly.
Someone can be good, if someone else is bad.”
― Lao Tzu
“People who are good
I treat well.
People who are not good
I also treat well.
- Chapter 49”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“人之生也柔弱，其死也坚强。草木之生也柔脆，其死也枯槁。故坚强者死之徒，柔弱者生之徒。是以兵强则灭，木强则折。强大处下，柔弱处上。”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Those who possess moderation will endure;
they have deep roots and strong stems. This is the secret to a long life,
and lasting insight into the Tao.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“If we could renounce our sageness and discard our wisdom, it would be better for the people a hundredfold.
If we could renounce our benevolence and discard our righteousness, the people would again become filial and kindly.
If we could renounce our artful contrivances and discard our (scheming for) gain, there would be no thieves nor robbers.”
― Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching
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“Heaven’s Tao is impartial,
yet those who follow its compassionate way
will always be nourished”
― Lao Tzu & A J Girling - translator
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Lao Tzu
“The effects of simplicity are profound indeed,
deep and far reaching.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“When well-matched armies come to conflict,
the one that is aware of its own weakness conquers.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Those who speak don't know and those who know don't speak.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Tell me and I'll listen,
Show me and I'll watch
Let me experience and I'll learn”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“The Tao is divine.
The Tao is the Eternal.
Death is not to be feared.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“A living being is tender and flexible;
a corpse is hard and stiff.
It is the same with everything—
leaves and grasses are tender and delicate,
but when they die they become rigid and dry. Those who are hard and inflexible
belong to death’s domain;
but the gentle and flexible
belong to life.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“It is virtuous to keep one’s obligations,
but the wise go beyond this—
they do not insist on their rights,
but forgive the debts of those who owe them. They know that the Tao will reward them
for staying out of court.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“So, he who displays himself does not shine; he who asserts his own views is not distinguished; he who vaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged; he who is self-conceited has no superiority allowed to him.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Those who steal from others impoverish themselves;
those who give to others become rich. Those who fight do not win;
those who win do not fight. This is the way of the Tao.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“To know others is wisdom;
To know yourself is enlightenment;
To master others requires force;
To master yourself requires true strength.”
― Lao-Tzu
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“One who is good at calculating does not use counting chips.”
― Lao Tzu, Daodejing: The New, Highly Readable Translation of the Life-Changing Ancient Scripture Formerly Known as the Tao Te Ching
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“Were I sufficiently wise I would follow the Great Way and only fear going astray the Great Way is smooth but people love byways their palaces are spotless but their fields are overgrown and their granaries are empty they wear fine clothes and carry sharp swords they tire of food and drink and possess more than they need this is called robbery and robbery is not the Way”
― Lao Tzu, Lao-tzu's Taoteching: With Selected Commentaries from the Past 2,000 Years
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“The Master, by residing in the Tao,
sets an example for all beings.
Because he doesn't display himself,
people can see his light.
Because he has nothing to prove,
people can trust his words.
Because he doesn't know who he is,
people recognize themselves in him.
Because he has no goal in mind,
everything he does succeeds.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Those who know don't tell.
Those who tell don't know.
from 56”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“The sage has no mind of his own.
He is aware of the needs of others.
I am good to people who are good.
I am also good to people who are not good.
Because Virtue is goodness.
I have faith in people who are faithful.
I also have faith in people who are not faithful.
Because Virtue is faithfulness.
The sage is shy and humble – to the world he seems confusing.
Others look to him and listen.
He behaves like a little child.”
― Lao Tzu
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“I let go of religion, and people become serene.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“He who knows (the Tao) does not (care to) speak (about it); he who is (ever ready to) speak about it does not know it.”
― Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching
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“Therefore a sage has said, 'I will do nothing (of purpose), and the people will be transformed of themselves; I will be fond of keeping still, and the people will of themselves become correct.”
― Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching
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“故 常 無 ，欲 以 觀 其 妙 ﹔常 有 ，欲 以 觀 其 徼”
― LaoTzu, Tao Te Ching / 道德經
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“second assumption of Daoist “cosmology” (now using this term “cosmology” under advisement) that follows from this acknowledgment of the reality of both change and the uniqueness that follows from it is that particular “things” are in fact processual events, and are thus intrinsically related to the other “things” that provide them context. Said another way, these processual events are porous, flowing into each other in the ongoing transformations we call experience. Formation and function—the shape of things and what they do to whom—are interdependent and mutually determining characteristics of these events. It is for this reason that things resist “definition” in the literal sense of finis—a practice that delineates some ostensibly discrete boundary around them, and thus reduces all relations to external, extrinsic transactions. With fluid and shifting boundaries among things, integrity for any particular thing does not mean being or staying whole, or even actualizing its own internal potential. Rather, integrity is something becoming whole in its co-creative relationships with other things. Integrity is consummatory relatedness.”
― Lao Tzu, Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation
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“There is no greater illusion than fear,
no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself,
no greater misfortune than having an enemy.”
― Lao Tzu
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“If you are compassionate,
you can be truly courageous;
if you are economical, you can be truly generous;
if you are humble, you can be truly helpful. If you are brave but lack compassion,
are generous but lack economy,
and try to help others but lack humility,
you’ve lost the way.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Therefore the sage desires what (other men) do not desire, and does not prize things difficult to get; he learns what (other men) do not learn, and turns back to what the multitude of men have passed by.
Thus he helps the natural development of all things, and does not dare to act (with an ulterior purpose of his own).”
― Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching
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“To lead people, you must follow behind.”
― Lao Tzu
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“DAILY AWARENESS POEM
Always we hope
someone else has the answer.
Some other place will be better,
some other time it will all turn out.
This is it.
No one else has the answer.
No other place will be better,
and it has already turned out.
At the center of your being
you have the answer;
you know who you are
and you know what you want.
There is no need
to run outside
for better seeing.
Nor to peer from a window.
Rather abide at the center of your being;
for the more you leave it the less you learn.
Search your heart
and see
the way to do
is to be.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Those who know others are intelligent;
those who understand themselves are enlightened.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“If you are depressed, you are living in the past; if you are anxious, you are living in the present; if you are at peace, you are living in the present.”
― Lao Tzu
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“An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Touch ultimate emptiness,
Hold steady and still.
All things work together:
I have watched them reverting,
And have seen how they flourish
And return again, each to his roots.
This, I say, is the stillness:
A retreat to one's roots;
Or better yet, return
To the will of God,
Which is, I say, to constancy.
The knowledge of constancy
I call enlightenment and say
That not to know it
Is blindness that works evil.
But when you know
What eternally is so,
You have stature
And stature means righteousness
And righteousness is kingly
And kingliness divine
And divinity is the Way
Which is final.
Then, though you die,
You shall not perish.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Stop trying to leave, and you shall arrive; stop seeking, and you shall see; stop running away, and you shall be found.”
― Lao Tzu
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“The wise do not appear great among others;
and so they reveal their true greatness.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Knowing others is intelligent. Knowing yourself is enlightened.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Some say that my teaching is nonsense.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Everything that lives has a physical body,
but the value of a life is measured by the soul.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Quien valora lo que tiene y se conforma, es un hombre rico.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching. El libro sagrado del taoismo
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“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. —Max DePree”
― Lao Tzu, Essential Writings of Taoism: The Tao te Ching and the Chuang Tzu
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“There is no greater illusion than fear, no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe. --loc 710
Tao Te Ching: A New English Version
Paperback – Sep 5 2006 | Unabridged
by Lao Tzu and Stephen Mitchell
ISBN-10: 0061142662”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Don’t glorify heroes, And people will not contend. Don’t treasure rare objects, And no one will steal. Don’t display what people desire, And their hearts will not be disturbed.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“A leader is best when people barely know that he [or she] exists,
Of a good leader who talks little,
When the work is done,
The aim is fulfilled
They will say, “We did this ourselves.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Amidst the worldly comings and goings, observe how endings become beginnings.”
― Lao Tzu
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“The wise ruler treats the good with goodness;
and treats the not-so-good with goodness, too—
for goodness is its own reward.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Know others by knowing yourself. Overcome others by overcoming yourself. Understanding what is enough is enough. Presence is perseverance. Coming to stillness is forging ahead. Find life by accepting death.”
― Lao Tzu, Waterway: a new translation of the Tao Te Ching and introducing the Wu Wei Ching
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“Self is realized through selflessness.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A New Translation
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“The earth and the stars do not take sides—
they are impartial. They regard all individuals as insignificant,
as though they were playthings made of straw. The wise are also impartial;
to them all people are equal and alike.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Pomp is contrary to the Tao.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“The wise humble themselves—
and because of their humility,
they are worthy of praise.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“If you aren’t free of yourself
how will you ever become yourself?
- Verse Seven
(David Hinton translation)”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Who can (make) the muddy water (clear)? Let it be still, and it will gradually become clear.
Who can secure the condition of rest?
Let movement go on, and the condition of rest will gradually arise.
They who preserve this method of the Tao do not wish to be full (of themselves).”
― Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching
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“Turning back is how the way moves; Weakness is the means-the way employs.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Those who are wise heal themselves. The wise never fall ill because they rid themselves of the causes of illnesses. They abide in Tao. How can they be ill then?”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Trying to control the world?
I see you won't succeed.
The world is a spiritual vessel
And cannot be controlled.
Those who control, fail.
Those who grasp, lose.
Some go forth, some are led,
Some weep, some blow flutes
Some become strong, some superfluous,
Some oppress, some destroyed.
Therefore the Sage,
Casts off extremes,
Casts off excess,
Casts off extravagance.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“The wise humble themselves—
and because of their humility,
they are worthy of praise. They put others first,
and so become great. They are not focused on outcomes or achievements;
therefore they always succeed.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“If you continue filling a pail after it is full,
the water will be wasted.
If you continue grinding an axe after it is sharp,
the edge will wear away. Who can protect a house full of gold and jewels?
Excessive fortune brings about its own misfortune. To win true merit—to earn a good reputation—
you must be prudent.
This is the way of the Tao.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“They cannot be moved by praise or blame;
they cannot be changed by profit or loss;
they cannot be honored or humiliated. And so the wise are truly honored.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, earnestly carry it into practice. Scholars of the middle class, when they have heard about it, seem now to keep it and now to lose it. Scholars of the lowest class, when they have heard about it, laugh greatly at it. If it were not (thus) laughed at, it would not be fit to be the Tao”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“To be in favor or disgrace
is to live in fear.
To take the body seriously
is to admit one can suffer.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Always without desire we must be found,
If its deep mystery we would sound;
But if desire always within us be,
Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“It is the way of the Tao to act without (thinking of) acting; to conduct affairs without (feeling the) trouble of them; to taste without discerning any flavor; to consider what is small as great, and a few as many; and to recompense injury with kindness.”
― Lao Tzu
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“The advantages of non-action. Few in the world attain these.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Those who dare risk death have courage;
but those who death cannot destroy are immortal.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“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.”
― Lao Tzu
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“The most yielding thing in the world will overcome the most rigid The most empty thing in the world will overcome the most full From this comes a lesson— Stillness benefits more than action Silence benefits more than words Rare indeed are those who are still Rare indeed are those who are silent And so I say, Rare indeed are those who obtain the bounty of this world”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The New Translation from Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition
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“The way of the Tao is simple—
stop striving, defeat desire.
In the absence of striving, there is peace;
in the absence of desire, there is satisfaction.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Go to the people.
Learn from them.
Live with them.
Love them.
Start with what they know.
Build with what they have.
But the best of leaders when the job is done,
when the task is accomplished,
the people will all say we have done it ourselves.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Woman is Yin - humble, soft and harmonious. Woman is not preeminent (dominant) but none-the-less subdues man”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Quien conoce a su pueblo es aplicado. Quien se conoce a sí mismo es sabio. Quien domina al otro es fuerte. Quien se domina a sí mismo es poderoso.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching. El libro sagrado del taoismo
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“Dualistic thinking is a sickness. Religion is a distortion. Materialism is cruel. Blind spirituality is unreal. Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing, religious robes no more spiritual than work clothes. If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao, don't get caught up in spiritual superficialities. Instead, live a quiet and simple life, free of ideas and concepts. Find contentment in the practice of undiscriminating virtue, the only true power. Giving to others selflessly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darknesses, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings. This is what is meant by embodying the Tao.”
― Lao Tzu, Hua Hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu
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“What does it mean, “Be wary of both honor and disgrace”? Honor is founded on disgrace and disgrace is rooted in honor Both should be avoided Both bind a man to this world That’s why it says, “Be wary of both honor and disgrace”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The New Translation from Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition
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“So the unwanting soul sees what’s hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
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“Matter is necessary to give form,
but the value of reality lies in its immateriality. Everything that lives has a physical body,
but the value of a life is measured by the soul.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Gentle flexibility
is the way of the humble master”
― Lao Tzu & A J Girling - translator, Tao Te Ching
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“I have three treasures which I hold and keep.
The first is mercy; the second is economy;
The third is daring not to be ahead of others.
Nowadays men shun mercy, but try to be brave;
They abandon economy, but try to be generous;
They do not believe in humility, but always try to be first.
This is certain death.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Having to live on, one knows better than to value life too much.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Tao Te Ching – Verse 78
Nothing in the world
is as soft and yielding as water.
Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible,
nothing can surpass it.
The soft overcomes the hard;
the gentle overcomes the rigid.
Everyone knows this is true,
but few can put it into practice.
Therefore the Master remains
serene in the midst of sorrow.
Evil cannot enter his heart.
Because he has given up helping,
he is people’s greatest help.
True words seem paradoxical.
(translation by Stephen Mitchell, 1995)”
― Lao Tzu
“Разглеждайте трудността, докато е още лека. Запознайте се с голямото, докато е още малко. Най-трудните подвизи на света отначало са лесни; най-големите дела отначало са малки.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”
― Lao-Tzu
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“In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing.
To be all-embracing leads to righteousness,
Which is majestic.
To be majestic leads to the Heavenly.
To be Heavenly leads to the Way.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Great power, not clinging to power, has true power. Lesser power, clinging to power, lacks true power. Great power, doing nothing, has nothing to do. Lesser power, doing nothing, has an end in view.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
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“If any one should wish to get the kingdom for himself, and to effect this by what he does, I see that he will not succeed. The kingdom is a spirit-like thing, and cannot be got by active doing. He who would so win it destroys it; he who would hold it in his grasp loses it.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“For a house,
the good thing is level ground.
In thinking,
depth is good.
The good of giving is magnanimity;
of speaking, honesty;
of government, order.
The good of work is skill,
and of action, timing.
No competition,
so no blame.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“The Tao, considered as unchanging, has no name.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Clay is molded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Bir insanın ne kadar tabusu varsa o kadar mutsuzdur”
― Lao Tzu
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“He who knows others is clever, but he who knows himself is enlightened. He who overcomes others is strong, but he who overcomes himself is mightier still. He is rich who knows when he has enough. He who acts with energy has strength of purpose. He who moves not from his proper place is long-lasting. He who dies, but perishes not, enjoys true longevity.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“You render the small vast and few many,
use integrity to repay hatred,
see the complexity in simplicity,
find the vast in the minute.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Of fame or life, Which do you hold more dear?
Or life or wealth, To which would you adhere?
Keep life and lose those other things; Keep them and lose your life:-- which brings Sorrow and pain more near?”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Who thinks his great achievements poor
Shall find his vigour long endure.”
― Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching
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“She who is centered in the Tao
can go where she wishes, without danger.
She perceives the universal harmony,
even amid great pain,
because she has found peace in her heart.”
― Lao Tzu
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“When The Best Leader's Work Is Done, The People Say, 'We Did It Ourselves!”
― Lao Tzu
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“The man who is content with what he has
is not in danger of loss.
The man who knows when to stop
is free to go on.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Anyone who doesn’t respect a teacher or cherish a student may be clever, but has gone astray.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
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“As coisas recebem sua forma de acordo com sua natureza e se completam conforme as circunstâncias de sua condição.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”
― Lao Tzu
“Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
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“Heaven and Earth are not benevolent; They treat the myriad creatures as straw dogs.17 Sages are not benevolent; They treat the people as straw dogs.”
― Lao Tzu, The Daodejing of Laozi
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“When one gives undivided attention to the (vital) breath, and brings it to the utmost degree of pliancy, he can become as a (tender) babe. When he has cleansed away the most mysterious sights (of his imagination), he can become without a flaw.”
― Lao Tzu, THE TÂO TEH KING
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“to know the raw silk, hold the uncut wood. Need little, want less. Forget the rules. Be untroubled.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
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“The sage has no invariable mind of his own; he makes the mind of the people his mind.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Stillness is the master of passion.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Measure yourself the way you measure others. Measure others the way you measure your village. Measure your village the way you measure your country. Measure your country the way you measure the Tao. And measure the Tao by what is in you.”
― Lao Tzu, Waterway: a new translation of the Tao Te Ching and introducing the Wu Wei Ching
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“Hyvällä matkailijalla ei ole pysyviä suunnitelmia eikä hän yritä päästä perille.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“The Master does nothing; yet he leaves nothing undone.”
― Lao Tzu
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“What’s softest in the world rushes and runs over what’s hardest in the world. The immaterial enters the impenetrable. So I know the good in not doing. The wordless teaching, the profit in not doing— not many people understand it.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
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“慎终如始，则无败事”
― Lao Tzu
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“Pon en desuso la sagacidad y la búsqueda del beneficio y el robo y la estafa dejarán de tener lugar entre los tuyos.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching. El libro sagrado del taoismo
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“Si un hombre quiere darle forma al mundo, modelarlo a su capricho, difícilmente lo conseguirá. El mundo es un jarro sagrado que no se puede manipular ni retocar. Quien trata de hacerlo, lo deforma. Quien lo aferra, lo pierde. Por eso el sabio no intenta modelarlo, luego no lo deforma. No lo aferra, luego no lo pierde. Hay quienes marchan adelante, hay quienes marchan atrás. Hay quienes permanecen callados, hay quienes hablan. Algunos son fuertes, otros débiles. Algunos medran, otros perecen. Luego el sabio rechaza el exceso, la extravagancia y la propia complacencia.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao te King (Ilustrado)
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“是 以 聖 人 處 無 為 之 事 ， 行 不 言 之 教 ﹔ 萬 物 作 而 弗 始 ， 生 而 弗 有 ， 為 而 弗 恃 ， 功 成 而 不 居”
― LaoTzu, Tao Te Ching / 道德經
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“If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“حيثما تعسكر القوات ينبت شجر الشوك
وفي أعقاب الجيوش الجرارة يذوي الحصاد
اذا كان لابد من الحرب فعجل في إنهائها
عجل في إنهائها ولاتتفاخر
عجل في إنهائها ولاتتبجح
عجل في إنهائها ولاتتغطرس
عجل في إنهائها ولاتروّع الناس”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Or fame or life,
Which do you hold more dear?
Or life or wealth,
To which would you adhere?
Keep life and lose those other things;
Keep them and lose your life:-- which brings
Sorrow and pain more near?”
― Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching
“The world
He who changes it will destroy it.
He who seizes it will lose it.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“To give birth, to nourish, to bear and not to own, to act and not lay claim, to lead and not to rule: this is mysterious power.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
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“If you try to cut wood like a master carpenter,
you will only hurt your hand.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. —Frank Zappa”
― Oliver Benjamin, The Tao of the Dude: Awesome Insights of Deep Dudes from Lao Tzu to Lebowski
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“As Lao Tzu wrote: 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.”
― Susan Spencer-Wendel, Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living with Joy
“The people make light of dying because of the greatness of their labours in seeking for the means of living. It is this which makes them think light of dying. Thus it is that to leave the subject of living altogether out of view is better than to set a high value on it.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching:
“The best fighter is never angry”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear?”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“We gain by losing, Lose by gaining.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“If the government is tolerant, the people will be without guile. If the government is meddling, there will be constant infraction of the law.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Chase after money and security
and your heart will never unclench.
Care about people's approval
and you will be their prisoner.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Good music, the Chinese held, insures peace and uprightness; bad music leads to lewdness and social decline.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“No se puede conocer el Tao solo nombrándolo, porque el origen del universo es solo uno de sus nombres. Todo lo que existe y puede existir es su creación, porque el universo es solo un mapa de lo que existe y puede existir. La vida superficial sirve para sentir al universo, la vida interior, para entenderlo. Las dos vidas existen dentro del Tao y ninguna de ellas por separado puede contenerlo. El Tao es infinitamente más grande y más sutil que el universo.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Teniendo poco, estarás satisfecho; con mucho, estarás confundido.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: El Libro del Tao y la Virtud (Clásicos Universales nº 3)
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Lao Tzu
“Seal the openings, shut the doors,
And until your last day you will not be exhausted.
Widen the openings, interfere,
And until your last day you will not be safe.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“This is a subtle insight: the flexible overcomes the strong and unyielding.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“If the people never fear death,
what is the purpose of threatening to kill them?
If the people ever fear death,
and I were to capture and kill those who are devious,
who would dare to be so?
If the people must be ever fearful of death,
then there will always be an executioner.
Now,
To kill in place of the executioner
Is like
Hewing wood in place of the master carpenter;
Few indeed will escape cutting their own hands!”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“At the center of your being, you have the answer.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Those who understand others are intelligent Those who understand themselves are enlightened1 Those who overcome others have strength Those who overcome themselves are powerful”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: Annotated & Explained
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“Conocer el propio mal es liberarse del mal. El sabio no tiene mal; porque lo reconoce, no lo padece.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te King: Clásicos de la literatura
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Lao Tzu
“Things exalted then decay.
This is going against the Way.
What goes against the Way meets an early end.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“When things are murky, quiet down, and they will gradually clear. Proceed, and momentum gradually builds.”
― Lao Tzu, The Original Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Lao Tzu does not see political power as magic. He sees rightful power as earned and wrongful power as usurped. He does not see power as virtue, but as the result of virtue. The democracies are founded on that view.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
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Lao Tzu
“Without going out the door,
Know the world.
Without peeping through the window,
See heaven’s DAO.
The further you travel,
The less you know.
This is why the Sage
Knows without budging,
Identifies without looking,
Does without trying.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“So wise souls leaving self behind move forward, and setting self aside stay centered. Why let the self go? To keep what the soul needs.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
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Lao Tzu
“Therefore the Master
acts without doing anything
and teaches without saying anything.
Things arise and she lets them come;
things disappear and she lets them go.
She has but doesn't possess,
acts but doesn't expect.
When her work is done, she forgets it.
That is why it lasts forever.”
― Lao Tzu
“No presume, y por eso se destaca. No se muestra frente a otros, y por eso brilla. No alardea sobre sí, por eso recibe reconocimiento. No elogia sus logros, por eso perdura por largo tiempo. Debido a que no compite, nadie puede competir con él.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: El Libro del Tao y la Virtud (Clásicos Universales nº 3)
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“When I let go what I am, I become what I might be.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Everything flourishes;
each returns to its root,
Returning to the root is called tranquility, ,Tranquility is called returning to one’s nature, Returning to one’s nature is called constancy, Knowing constancy is called clarity”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Do you have the patience to wait til your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving til the right action arises by itself?”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“If one can remain tranquil even the heaven and earth can come to him.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Los cinco colores hacen que los ojos se cieguen; correr con caballos y la caza hacen que la mente se vuelva salvaje. Los bienes que son difíciles de obtener, son un obstáculo para la conducta apropiada. Los cinco sabores hacen que se confunda el paladar; los cinco tonos hacen que los oídos se ensordezcan. Por tanto, el gobierno del sabio se preocupa por lo interior y no por la vista. Por eso, evitando uno, toma lo otro.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: El Libro del Tao y la Virtud (Clásicos Universales nº 3)
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Lao Tzu
“Extreme love exacts a great price. Many possessions entail heavy loss.
Know what is enough— Abuse nothing. Know when to stop— Harm nothing.
This is how to last a long time.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Scholarly translations of the Tao Te Ching as a manual for rulers use a vocabulary that emphasizes the uniqueness of the Taoist “sage,” his masculinity, his authority. This language is perpetuated, and degraded, in most popular versions. I wanted a Book of the Way accessible to a present-day, unwise, unpowerful, and perhaps unmale reader, not seeking esoteric secrets, but listening for a voice that speaks to the soul.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
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“When his task is accomplished and his work done The people all say, ‘It happened to us naturally.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The world is a spiritual vessel And cannot be controlled.
Those who control, fail. Those who grasp, lose.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The Master does his job
and then stops.
He understands that the universe
is forever out of control,
and that trying to dominate events
goes against the current of the Tao.
Because he believes in himself,
he doesn't try to convince others.
Because he is content with himself,
he doesn't need others' approval.
Because he accepts himself,
the whole world accepts him.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“If you overesteem great men,
people become powerless.
If you overvalue possessions,
people begin to steal.
The Master leads
by emptying people’s minds
and filling their cores,
by weakening their ambition
and toughening their resolve.
He helps people lose everything
they know, everything they desire,
and creates confusion
in those who think that they know.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“There is no greater calamity Than not knowing what is enough. There is no greater fault Than desire for success.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“It is simply in doing things noncoercively
That everything is governed properly.”
― Lao Tzu, Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation
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Lao Tzu
“Acepta poco y serás más, inclínate y serás recto, vacíate y quedarás lleno, desciende y ascenderás, desea lo necesario y conseguirás lo imprescindible.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao te Ching
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“Conocer y no saberlo, ésta es la perfección. No conocer y creer saberlo, éste es el mal.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te King: Clásicos de la literatura
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Lao Tzu
“¿Qué hombre que tiene de sobra le daría sus riquezas al mundo? Sólo el hombre que posee al Tao.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te King: Clásicos de la literatura
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“Por eso, el sabio hace su trabajo sin acumular nada por él, realiza su obra sin apropiarse de ella, y no se vanagloria de su sabiduría.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te King: Clásicos de la literatura
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Lao Tzu
“The name that can be named
Is not the eternal Name .
The unnameable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
Of all things.
Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.
Yet mysteries and manifestations
Arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Growing downward Be broken to be whole. Twist to be straight. Be empty to be full. Wear out to be renewed. Have little and gain much. Have much and get confused. So wise souls hold to the one, and test all things against it. Not showing themselves, they shine forth. Not justifying themselves, they’re self-evident. Not praising themselves, they’re accomplished. Not competing, they have in all the world no competitor. What they used to say in the old days, “Be broken to be whole,” was that mistaken? Truly, to be whole is to return.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Those who try to seize power and remake society will fail.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“O Caminho Perfeito é plano e fácil de trilhar, mas as pessoas preferem as vias tortas.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“understanding the Tao helps remove us from a frame of mind that demands strict dualistic, either-or categories”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: Annotated & Explained
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Lao Tzu
“A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Ser Valiente pero Prudente: Normativa necesaria para alcanzar la Armonía con el Cosmos”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te King: Clásicos de la literatura
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Lao Tzu
“靜勝躁，寒勝熱。清靜為天下正。”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“El valor del osado le conduce a la muerte. El valor del prudente le conserva la vida. Uno es el perjudicado y el otro el beneficiado.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te King: Clásicos de la literatura
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Lao Tzu
“Knowing others is Wisdom,
Knowing yourself is Enlightenment.”
― Lao-Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Eyes look but cannot see it Ears listen but cannot hear it Hands grasp but cannot touch it Beyond the senses lies the great Unity— invisible, inaudible, intangible”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The New Translation from Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition
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Lao Tzu
“Fame or the self, which is dearer? The self or wealth, which is greater?1 Gain or loss, which is more painful?”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: Annotated & Explained
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Lao Tzu
“Look. Forget how smart you think you are. Stop wanting everything, as though there is something out there that will cure or fix you. Just make things happen by allowing them to happen Then everything will turn out alright.”
― Lao Tzu, Waterway: a new translation of the Tao Te Ching and introducing the Wu Wei Ching
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“The softest things of the world Override the hardest things of the world1”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: Annotated & Explained
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“Keep sharpening, and the knife becomes useless.”
― Lao Tzu, Waterway: a new translation of the Tao Te Ching and introducing the Wu Wei Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The Tao is like an empty container: it can never be emptied and can never be filled. Infinitely deep, it is the source of all things.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Lo duro y lo rígido son propiedades de la muerte. Lo blando y flexible son propiedades de la vida.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te King: Clásicos de la literatura
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Lao Tzu
“If you want to accord with the Tao,
just do your job, then let go.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“El Tao del cielo es quitar al que le sobra y dar al que le falta.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te King: Clásicos de la literatura
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Lao Tzu
“Seeing details is called clarity,
Holding on to the soft is called strength,
Utilize the light,
Return to the clarity,
Leaving no disasters for the self,
This is called practicing constancy”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Darse cuenta de que nuestro conocimiento es ignorancia,es una noble comprensión interna.
Considerar nuestra ignorancia como conocimiento
es enfermedad mental.”
― Lao Tzu
“Here are the four fundamentals of true spirituality: recognize simplicity, cherish purity, reduce your possessions, diminish your desires.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Need little, want less. Forget the rules. Be untroubled.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
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Lao Tzu
“The wise are not conspicuous in their actions or given to much talking. When troubles arise, they are not irritated. They produce, but do not hoard; They act, but expect no praise; They build, but do not dwell therein. And because they do not dwell therein, They never depart.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“What is meant by saying that honour and great calamity are to be (similarly) regarded as personal conditions? What makes me liable to great calamity is my having the body (which I call myself); if I had not the body, what great calamity could come to me?
吾有大患，及吾有身；及吾无身，吾有何患”
― Lao Tzu
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“Misery!—happiness is to be found by its side! Happiness!
—misery lurks beneath it! Who knows what either will
come to in the end?
祸兮福所倚，福兮祸所伏”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Seek to attain an open mind (the summit of vacuity). Seek composure (the essence of tranquillity) All things are in process, rising and returning. Plants come to blossom, but only to return to the root. Returning to the root is like seeking tranquillity; it is moving towards its destiny. To move toward destiny is like eternity. To know eternity is enlightenment, and not to recognize eternity brings disorder and evil Knowing eternity makes one comprehensive; comprehension makes one broadminded; breadth of vision brings nobility; nobility is like heaven The heavenly is like Tao. Tao is the Eternal. The decay of the body is not to be feared”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching Taoism Ultimate Collection
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“The greatest of rulers is but a shadowy presence;”
― Lao Tzu, The Daodejing of Laozi
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“While protecting the people, they do not control them. They are motherly and fatherly, but not domineering. They persuade with words, not weapons.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Those who are good at military action achieve their goal and then stop.”
― Lao Tzu, The Daodejing of Laozi
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Lao Tzu
“Conquistar a otros, significa tener poder. Conquistarse a uno mismo, significa tener fortaleza.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: El Libro del Tao y la Virtud (Clásicos Universales nº 3)
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“What I'm teaching you is easy to understand. Perhaps you're thinking too hard. What I'm teaching you is easy to put into practice. Perhaps you should relax. What I'm teaching you has a source, but you're expecting a result. You want the precious jade; I offer only homespun cloth. Which will keep you warm?”
― Lao Tzu, Waterway: a new translation of the Tao Te Ching and introducing the Wu Wei Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The Master
acts without doing anything
and teaches without saying anything.
Things arise and she lets them come;
things disappear and she lets them go.
She has but doesn't possess,
acts but doesn't expect.
When her work is done, she forgets it.
That is why it lasts forever.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Achieve the aim but don’t boast. Achieve the aim without display. Achieve the aim without arrogance. Achieve the aim but don’t assert it. Achieve the aim but don’t intimidate.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Book of The Way and its Virtue
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“Can you step back from your mind and thus understand all things?”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“All you grasp will be thrown away. All you hoard will be utterly lost.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
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Lao Tzu
“Seek an open mind—the ideal of vacuity. Seek composure—the essence of tranquility. All things are in process, rising and returning. Plants blossom for a season, then return to the root.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“See others as yourself.
See families as your family.
See towns as your town.
See countries as your country.
See worlds as your world.
How do I know that the world is such?
By this.”
― Lao Tzu
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“To clarify muddy waters, you must hold them still and let things settle. To glimpse the secret of the Tao, you must keep still and quiet your mind.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The highest virtue is inaction But nothing is left undone.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Book of The Way and its Virtue
“La naturaleza es simple y pronuncia pocas palabras. Los vientos poderosos no soplan mucho tiempo. Las lluvias torrenciales no caen eternamente. Si la voz de la naturaleza no perdura ¿por qué habría de hacerlo la del hombre? Prolóngate en el Tao y el Tao te aceptará. Ejerce la virtud y la virtud te aceptará. Para que confíen en ti debes confiar.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Sometimes gain comes from losing,
And sometimes loss comes from gaining”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“In not wanting is stillness. In stillness all under heaven rests.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
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Lao Tzu
“In ancient times, as today, many people thought they could become enlightened by traveling to places they considered sacred. They visited holy lands; they went on pilgrimages. Unlike them, Tao cultivators recognized that spirituality came from within, and so they did not feel the need to search frantically all over the material world for enlightenment.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: Annotated & Explained
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Lao Tzu
“Although the wheel has thirty spokes its utility lies in the emptiness of the hub. The jar is made by kneading clay, but its usefulness consists in its capacity. A room is made by cutting out windows and doors through the walls, but the space the walls contain measures the room's value”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching Taoism Ultimate Collection
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Lao Tzu
“為無為”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“She doesn’t give even a moment’s thought to right or wrong. She never has to make a decision; decisions arise by themselves. She is like an actress who loves her role. The Tao is writing the script.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu”
― Lao Tzu
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“la habilidad del sabio de lograr lo grandioso, proviene de no engrandecerse. Así es capaz de lograr lo grandioso.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: El Libro del Tao y la Virtud (Clásicos Universales nº 3)
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Lao Tzu
“True words aren't eloquent;
eloquent words aren't true.
Wise men don't need to prove their point;
men who need to prove their point aren't wise.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“If you aren’t afraid of dying, there is nothing you can’t achieve.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“When nothing is done,
nothing is left undone.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“To believe that our beliefs are permanent truths which encompass reality is a sad arrogance. To let go of that belief is to find safety.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
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Lao Tzu
“The Master arrives without leaving,
sees the light without looking,
achieves without doing a thing.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Knowing when to stop Keeps one from danger.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Book of The Way and its Virtue
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Lao Tzu
“One who understands others is clever. One who understands the ‘self’ is enlightened. One who conquers others is forceful. One who conquers the ‘self’ is strong. One who can be content is rich. One who can act with purpose has will. One who doesn’t lose place endures. One who dies without loss has lived a life.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Book of The Way and its Virtue
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Lao Tzu
“Because it never regards itself as great It is capable of being great.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Book of The Way and its Virtue
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Lao Tzu
“I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good became as common as grass.”
—”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“What is firmly established cannot be uprooted.
What is firmly grasped cannot slip away.
It will be honored from generation to generation.
Cultivate Virtue in your self,
And Virtue will be real.
Cultivate it in the family,
And Virtue will abound.
Cultivate it in the village,
And Virtue will grow.
Cultivate it in the nation,
And Virtue will be abundant.
Cultivate it in the universe,
And Virtue will be everywhere.
Therefore look at the body as body;
Look at the family as family;
Look at the village as village;
Look at the nation as nation;
Look at the universe as universe.
How do I know the universe is like this?
By looking!”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub.
It is the center hole that makes it useful.
Shape clay into a vessel;
It is the space within that makes it useful.
Cut doors and windows for a room;
It is the holes which make it useful.
Therefore benefit comes from what is there;
Usefulness from what is not there.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“O Tao imaginou o Um, o Um exalou o Dois, o Dois é pai do Três e o Três, pai de todas as coisas.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“¿Cómo puedo entonces conocer el mundo? Porque lo veo por mí mismo.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te King: Clásicos de la literatura
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“So things are sometimes augmented By being diminished, And diminished by addition.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Book of The Way and its Virtue
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Lao Tzu
“A raiz da grandeza é a humildade. O que é elevado se fundamenta no que é baixo.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“aquele que teve de comandar a matança de milhares de homens deve chorar por eles com maior dor.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“It is unnatural to walk on tiptoe.
Try to elevate yourself above others,
and you will soon fall.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Si demasiada Energía es usada, le sigue el agotamiento.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te King: Clásicos de la literatura
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Lao Tzu
“Onde quer que se encontrem grandiosos exércitos, a colheita será pobre.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Know others by knowing yourself.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“It gives them life yet claims no possession; It benefits them yet exacts no gratitude; It is the steward yet exercises no authority. Such is called the mysterious virtue.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Aquele que viu o brilho da glória, e não esqueceu dos desgraçados, se torna como um grande vale por onde fluem todas as águas do mundo.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Habla solo lo necesario, Controla tus emociones, Simplifica los problemas, Deshazte de la confusión, Atenúa tu resplandor,”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te King: Clásicos de la literatura
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“Na Era do Ouro, as pessoas não estavam conscientes de seus governantes. Na Era de Prata, elas os amavam e cantavam. Na Era de Bronze, elas os temiam. E por fim, na Era do Ferro, elas os desprezavam.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“I observe myself and thus understand the others.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Humanity is the child of earth;
Earth is the child of the universe;
The universe is the child of the Tao.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Power is to be construed as the production of intended effects determined by external causation. Real creativity, on the other hand, entails the spontaneous production of novelty, irreducible through causal analysis. Power is exercised with respect to and over others. Creativity is always reflexive and is exercised over and with respect to “self.” And since self in a processive world is always communal, creativity is contextual, transactional, and multidimensional. Thus creativity is both self-creativity and co-creativity. Either everything shares in creativity, or there is no creativity. Indeed, it is this transactional, co-creative character of all creative processes that precludes the project of self-cultivation and self-creation from being egoistic.”
― Lao Tzu, Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation
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“O nome não é o mesmo que Aquilo que foi nomeado.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Hence Lao-tzu’s emphasis on softness. Softness means the opposite of rigidity, and is synonymous with suppleness, adaptability, endurance. Anyone who has seen a t’ai chi or aikido master doing not-doing will know how powerful this softness is.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Not to value and employ men of superior ability is the way to keep the people from rivalry among themselves; not to prize articles which are difficult to procure is the way to keep them from becoming thieves; not to show them what is likely to excite their desires is the way to keep their minds from disorder.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Tao and its Characteristics
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“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Govern large countries
like you cook little fish.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“They put others first,
and so become great. They are not focused on outcomes or achievements;
therefore they always succeed.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“O sucesso e a desgraça vêm sempre acompanhados pelo medo.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“third assumption in the Daoist “cosmology” is that life broadly construed is entertained through and only through these same phenomena that constitute our experience. The field of experience is always construed from one perspective or another. There is no view from nowhere, no external perspective, no decontextualized vantage point. We are all in the soup. The intrinsic, constitutive relations that obtain among things make them reflexive and mutually implicating, residing together within the flux and flow.”
― Lao Tzu, Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation
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“Only I am clumsy,
like drifting on the waves of the sea,
without direction.”
― Lao Tzu
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“A man of the highest virtue does not keep to virtue and that is why he has
virtue. A man of the lowest virtue never strays from virtue and that is why he
is without virtue. The former never acts yet leaves nothing undone. The latter
acts but there are things left undone. A man of the highest benevolence acts,
but from no ulterior motive. A man of the highest rectitude acts, but from
ulterior motive. A man most conversant in the rites acts, but when no one
responds rolls up his sleeves and resorts to persuation by force.”
― Lao Tzu
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“No one rules if no one obeys.”
― Lao Tzu
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“We tend to expect great things from “seeing the world” and “getting experience.” A Roman poet remarked that travelers change their sky but not their soul. Other poets, untraveled and inexperienced, Emily Brontë and Emily Dickinson, prove Lao Tzu’s point: it’s the inner eye that really sees the world.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
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“Si quieres empequeñecer una cosa,
procura que antes se dilate.
Si quieres debilitar algo,
procura que cobre fuerza primero.
Antes de aniquilar algo,
espera a que florezca plenamente.
Si quieres privar de algo a alguien,
primero habrás de darle lo bastante.
Esto es percibir la naturaleza de las cosas.
Lo flexible vence a lo rígido.
Lo débil triunfa sobre lo fuerte.
El pez no debe abandonar las aguas profundas.
Las armas del reino no deben ser exhibidas.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“The wise have no mind of their own, finding it in the minds of ordinary people.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
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“Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Therefore the wise ruler does not suggest unnecessary things, but seeks to satisfy the minds of his people. He seeks to allay appetites but strengthen bones. He ever tries by keeping people in ignorance to keep them satisfied and those who have knowledge he restrains from evil. If he, himself, practices restraint then everything is in quietness.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching Taoism Ultimate Collection
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“Daodejing 65.
Those of ancient times who were expert in implementing the Way
Did not use it to enlighten the common people
But employed it to make them stupid
The commoners are difficult to govern
Because they know too much.”
― Lao Tzu
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“The Taoist Master Lie (Lieh-tzu) had written: There was a man who lived by the sea and loved seagulls. Every day at dawn when he went down to the sea to swim, the gulls followed him. This was a sign that he was completely in tune with Nature.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Essential Translation of the Ancient Chinese Book of the Way
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“The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The unnameable is the eternal real.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“the value of a life is measured by the soul.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“). In fact, in the absence of some claim to objectivity that “objectifies” and thus makes “objects” of phenomena, the Chinese tradition does not have the separation between time and entities that would allow for either time without entities, or entities without time—there is no possibility of either an empty temporal corridor or an eternal anything (in the sense of being timeless). What encourages us within a Western metaphysical tradition to separate time and space is our inclination, inherited from the Greeks, to see things in the world as fixed in their formal aspect, and thus as bounded and limited. If instead of giving ontological privilege to the formal aspect of phenomena, we were to regard them as having parity in their formal and changing aspects, we might be more like classical China in temporalizing them in light of their ceaseless transformation, and conceive of them more as “events” than as “things.” In this processual worldview, each phenomenon is some unique current or impulse within a temporal flow. In fact, it is the pervasive and collective capacity of the events of the world to transform continuously that is the actual meaning of time. A”
― Lao Tzu, Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation
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“The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese Text, written in approximately the 6th century BC by Lao Tzu who was a record-keeper at the Zhou Dynasty court.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching Taoism Ultimate Collection
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“Can you coax your mind from its wandering and keep to the original oneness?... Can you cleanse your inner vision until you see nothing but the light? Can you love people and lead them without imposing your will? Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from your own mind and thus, understand all things?... This is the supreme virtue.”
― Lao Tzu
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“The Way of heaven takes away where there's abundance
and restores where there's want,
but the Way of humankind isn't like that:
it takes away where there's want
and gives where there's abundance.
Verse 77
(Hinton translation)”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“A journey of a thousand miles begin with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Great talents ripen late. The highest notes are hard to hear.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”
― Lao Tzu
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“To recognize one's ignorance of unknowable things is mental health, and to be ignorant of knowable things is sickness. Only by grieving over ignorance of knowable things are we in mental health. The wise man is wise because he understands his ignorance and is grieved over it”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching Taoism Ultimate Collection
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“Qigong Interpretation This chapter has pointed out a few important things about qigong practice. First, it has again emphasized the accumulation of good deeds and virtues. This will create in you a righteous, generous, peaceful, harmonious, and benevolent mind. Second, it mentions that the key of keeping the qi at its residence (or center) is embracing singularity. This means to keep your mind at the lower real dan tian (center of gravity). When keeping the mind at the center, your mind is not actively leading the qi out of its residence. This practice is called “keep at singularity” (shou yi, 守一), “embracing singularity” (bao yi, 抱一), or “hold and firm” (wo gu, 握固).”
― Lao Tzu, The Dao De Jing: A Qigong Interpretation
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“Therefore the good person is the teacher of the bad person The bad person is the resource of the good person Those who do not value their teachers And do not love their resources Although intelligent, they are greatly confused5 This is called the essential wonder”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: Annotated & Explained
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“He who knows he has enough is rich.”
― Lao Tzu
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“A violent wind does not last for a whole morning...”
― Lao Tzu
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“The nameless uncarved block
Is but freedom from desire,
And I if I cease to desire and remain still,
The empire will be at peace of its own accord.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Opravdu ten největší dar, který můžete světu dát, je vaše osobní transformace.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Peace is meant to be our natural state. A whirlwind never outlasts the morning, nor a violent rain the day. Just as earth and sky return to peace, so should we. They who act with violence become violent. They who act with virtue become virtuous. They who act in the spirit of the Tao become Tao-like. They who follow the Tao, the Tao will guide. They who pursue virtue, virtue will reward. They who live by violence, violence will soon destroy.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“He who knows contentment is rich;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Alejarse cuando se logra algo, ese es el Tao de los cielos.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: El Libro del Tao y la Virtud (Clásicos Universales nº 3)
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“She is good to people who are good. She is also good to people who aren’t good. This is true goodness.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“The world around us is always an interface between persistent form and novelty, the familiar honeycombed by the unexpected. The new emerges within the context and the security of the ordinary, and in due course, what was new overtakes and supplants the ordinary, and what was ordinary becomes an increasingly fragile memory for those who can still remember. In time, the new becomes the newly ordinary, and the ordinary returns whence it came.”
― Lao Tzu, Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation
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“There is no greater disaster than discontent.
— Laozi”
― Lao Tzu
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“Your body is the form lent to you by heaven and earth. Your life is not your possession, it is the harmony temporarily granted to you by heaven and earth. Your life destiny is not your possession, it is a flow granted to you temporarily by heaven and earth. Your children and grandchildren are not your possessions, heaven and earth have lent them to you to be cast off as an insect sheds its skin.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“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.”
― Lao Tzu
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“The Tao is called Great Mother: empty yet inexhaustible, it gives birth to infinite worlds. It is always present within you. You can use it any way you want.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Os medíocres vivem lúcidos
Somente eu aparento estar confuso
Os medíocres vivem lúcidos
Somente eu estou introspectivo
Indefinido como uma infinita noite silenciosa.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Those who think to win the world by doing something to it, I see them come to grief. For the world is a sacred object. Nothing is to be done to it. To do anything to it is to damage it. To seize it is to lose it.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
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“When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. Being and non-being create each other. Difficult and easy support each other. Long and short define each other. High and low depend on each other. Before and after follow each other.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Everyone recognizes beauty only because of ugliness Everyone recognizes virtue only because of sin”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The New Translation from Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition
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“Approach it and there is no beginning; follow it and there is no end. You can’t know it, but you can be it,”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Here are the four fundamentals of true spirituality: recognize simplicity, cherish purity, reduce your possessions, diminish your desires. 20”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“The nameless uncarved block Is but freedom from desire,”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“The effectiveness of action is in the right timing.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Essential Chapters
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“To know and not to do is not yet to know.”
― Lao Tzu, Ancient Wisdom: Knowledge, proverbs and wisdom from all around the world
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“The heart and mind, free of desire, turns inward to true knowledge”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Conquering others takes force. Conquering yourself is true strength.
Knowing what is enough is wealth.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“The Tao that can be told of is not the eternal Tao; The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; The Named is the mother of all things.”
― Lao Tzu
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“For a student of life, there is perhaps no single better text—certainly of its length—than the Dao De Jing.”
― Lao Tzu, The Dao De Jing: A Qigong Interpretation
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“The wise are not conspicuous in their actions
or given to much talking.
When troubles arise, they are not irritated. They produce, but do not hoard;
They act, but expect no praise;
They build, but do not dwell therein.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“goodness, if it is not sincere, is not really goodness.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Value virtue over wealth,”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Those who know the truth do not argue about it; those who argue do not know the truth.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“En lo alto no es luminoso,
en lo bajo no es oscuro.
Es eterno y no puede ser nombrado,
retorna al no-ser de las cosas.
Es la forma sin forma
y la imagen sin imagen.
Es lo confuso e inasible.
De frente no ves su rostro,
por detrás no ves su espalda.”
― Lao Tzu
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“I’ve problems because I have a body. When I’ve no body where’s my problem?”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Book of The Way and its Virtue
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“La “clarividencia”, es el adorno del Tao, y el inicio de la estupidez.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: El Libro del Tao y la Virtud (Clásicos Universales nº 3)
“kuwajua wengine ni hekima, kujijua mwenyewe ni maarifa makubwa”
― Lao Tzu
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“He who overcomes by violence will be overcome by violence”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Който се е повдигнал на пръсти,
не може дълго да стои.
Който прави големи крачки,
не може дълго да върви.
Който се уповава само на своите очи
недовижда.
Който се самопредставя,
не блести.
Който се хвали,
не се прославя.
Който напада,
няма успех.
Който се гордее,
не може да е старши.
Въз основа на Дао,
това се нарича остатък от ядене,
ненужно поведение.
Всички се отвращават от него.
Ето защо,
Който има Дао,
не постъпва така.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Weapons are the tools of fear; a decent man will avoid them except in the direst necessity and, if compelled, will use them only with the utmost restraint. Peace is his highest value. If the peace has been shattered, how can he be content? His enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself. He doesn’t wish them personal harm. Nor does he rejoice in victory. How could he rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Flattery and disgrace are both to be feared,
just as overeating and starvation
are both harmful to the body. Flattery is fattening to the spirit;
disgrace is emaciating. Over-concern is just as harmful as disregard.
Treat yourself well,
but don’t pamper yourself excessively.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Bring things to life and nurture them,
But have no thoughts of possession.
Act without relying on anything;
Bring things along, but do not take charge.
This is the dark and mysterious virtue.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“El cielo es eterno y la tierra permanece.
El cielo y la tierra deben su eterna duración
a que no hacen de sí mismos
la razón de su existencia.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Everybody eventually returns to an equilibrium state, the harder you push the harder the fall”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Not to desire material things is to know the freedom of spirituality;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“The violent do not trust in deep mysteries, they rebel against the Tao and the power”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“and to desire them is to suffer the limitations of matter.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“There are some things which it is a gain to lose,
and a loss to gain.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“The more prohibitions and rules, The poorer people become. The sharper people's weapons, The more they riot. The more skilled their techniques, The more grotesque their works. The more elaborate the laws, The more they commit crimes.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.”
― Lao Tzu
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“En el ser centramos nuestro interés,
pero del no-ser depende la utilidad.”
― Lao Tzu
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“The morally great man is one who keeps throughout life his infant heart”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things.”
― Lao Tzu
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“The uses of not
Thirty spokes
meet in the hub.
Where the wheel isn't
is where it's useful.
Hollowed out,
clay makes a pot.
Where the pot's not
is where it's useful.
Cut doors and windows
to make a room.
Where the room isn't,
there's room for you.
So the profit in what is
is in the use of what isn't.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Can you coax your mind from its wandering
and keep to the original oneness?
Can you let your body become
supple as a newborn child's?
Can you cleanse your inner vision
until you see nothing but the light?
Can you love people and lead them
without imposing your will?
Can you deal with the most vital matters
by letting events take their course?
Can you step back from you own mind
and thus understand all things?
Giving birth and nourishing,
having without possessing,
acting with no expectations,
leading and not trying to control:
this is the supreme virtue.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Easy promises make for little trust.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Quisiera poseer la sabiduría para poder marchar por el Gran Camino sin temor a desviarme. El Gran Camino es llano y recto, pero la gente elige los senderos tortuosos.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te King: Clásicos de la literatura
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“Those who babble and meddle in other’s business cannot escape from trouble, even to the end of life. To recognize your insignificance is empowering. To show sympathy is strength. Those who follow the Tao’s light arrive at enlightenment.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“el sabio es recto pero no tajante, es anguloso pero no hiriente, es firme pero no insolente, es iluminado pero no encandila.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te King: Clásicos de la literatura
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“en tanto a los desastres, ninguno es mayor que no saber cuando se tiene lo suficiente; en tanto a los defectos, ninguno trae más pena que ser insaciable.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: El Libro del Tao y la Virtud (Clásicos Universales nº 3)
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“Hold your ground and you will last long.
Die without perishing and your life will endure.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“When a ruler practices restraint, everything will be in peace.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Good things seem to change into bad, and bad things often turn out for good. These things have always been hard to comprehend.”
― Lao Tzu
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“No fight: no blame.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Če hočeš imeti znanje, vsak dan dodaj kaj. Če te mika postati moder, vsak dan kaj odvzemi.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Knowing when to stop, you can avoid any danger.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“A man hungry for knowledge gains something every day. A man who already knows loses something every day. strips down to the essence strips down the essence to nothing, and leaves nothing unknown. To rule, let go. Let people go; let yourself go; let the empire go. Anarchy is the only art of rulership.”
― Lao Tzu, Waterway: a new translation of the Tao Te Ching and introducing the Wu Wei Ching
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“The Tao can't be perceived. Smaller than an electron, it contains uncountable galaxies.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Not showing themselves, they shine forth. Not justifying themselves, they’re self-evident. Not praising themselves, they’re accomplished. Not competing, they have in all the world no competitor.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
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“Matter is necessary to give form,
but the value of reality lies in its immateriality”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Not to lose one's place means to accept one's lot - not to force anything by excessive action, not to try to reach full development before its due time”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“useful.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Essential Chapters
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“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“The Journey of A Thousand Miles begins with a Single Step”
― Lao Tzu
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“Whosoever wishes to be above the folk, in speech must be beneath them. Whosoever wishes to be ahead of them, must be behind. The Taoist is above, yet (the folk) doesn't feel any burden. He is ahead, yet (the folk) don't feel any impediment.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“True goodness is like water; it nurtures everything and harms nothing.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Stillness is the ruler of haste.”
― Lao Tzu
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“Υπάρχει κάτι άμορφο και όμως πλήρες
που υπήρχε πριν από τον ουρανό και τη γη
Τόσο ακίνητο! Τόσο άδειο!
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― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“To know that you do not know is the best.
To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Shut the doors,* And all your life you will not run dry. Unblock the openings, Add to your troubles,”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Stiff, like a guest, Fluid, like thawing ice, Dense, like the un-carved block, Empty, like the valley,”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Book of The Way and its Virtue
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Lao Tzu
“The wise are also impartial; to them all people are equal and alike.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“When rulers resort to force, things flourish for a time, but then decay.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Nature needs few words. Fierce winds don’t blow all morning, torrents don’t pour all day.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A New Translation
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Lao Tzu
“To lead people, walk behind them”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Recognize beauty and ugliness is born. Recognize good and evil is born.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“The greatest ruler is one they know from of old. The next is one they love and praise. The next is one they fear. The next is one they despise.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Book of The Way and its Virtue
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Lao Tzu
“Where there is lack of faith, There is a lack of respect.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Book of The Way and its Virtue
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Lao Tzu
“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”
― Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“Arthur Waley: Not only are Books the mere discarded husk or shell of wisdom, but Words themselves, expressing as they do only such things as belong to the normal state of consciousness, are irrelevant to the deeper experience of the Tao, the “wordless doctrine.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Essential Translation of the Ancient Chinese Book of the Way
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Lao Tzu
“Several defining aspects of focal order condition our awareness of it. The first of these conditions is the temporal immediacy of the continuing present: order is always located in the “very now.” The second condition is spatial immediacy: order starts here and goes there. Third, focal order is always collaborative: all relations, while they are intrinsic and thus constitutive, are also projective and recursive. And finally, equilibrium in one’s disposition allows one to contextualize events on their own terms and to achieve an optimally productive harmony.”
― Lao Tzu, Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation
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Lao Tzu
“They are not focused on outcomes or achievements; therefore they always succeed.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu
“Superficial things are insufficient, What is needed is all-embracing.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Book of The Way and its Virtue
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Lao Tzu
“Exhibit the unadorned. Hold fast to the un-carved block. Avoid the thought of Self. Eliminate desire.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Book of The Way and its Virtue
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Lao Tzu
“Por ello, los asuntos del mundo no son planeados, sino promovidos según su propia naturaleza.
No puede hacerse nada para facilitar los cambios de las miríadas de seres, excepto captar lo esencial y
regresar a ello. En consecuencia, los sabios cultivan los cimientos internos y no se adornan externamente
con cosas superficiales. Activan su espíritu vital y dejan en reposo sus opiniones aprendidas. Por ello, son
abiertos y sin argucias, aunque no hay nada que no hagan; no tienen leyes, pero no hay desorden.
No tener argucias significa no actuar antes que los demás. No tener leyes significa no cambiar la
naturaleza. Que no hay desgobierno significa que avanzan mediante la afirmación recíproca de los seres.”
― Lao Tzu, Wen-Tzu
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Lao Tzu
“What the Daodejing has to offer, on the other hand, is much simpler. It encourages the cultivation of a disposition that is captured in what we have chosen to call its wu-forms. The wu-forms free up the energy required to sustain the abstract cognitive and moral sensibilities of technical philosophy, allowing this energy, now unmediated by concepts, theories, and contrived moral precepts, to be expressed as those concrete feelings that inspire the ordinary business of the day. It is through these concrete feelings that one is able to know the world and to optimize the human experience.”
― Lao Tzu, Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation
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