Lao Tzu Quotes
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Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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The very highest is barely known. Then comes that which people know and love, Then that which is feared, Then that which is despised. Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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Love the whole world as if it were your self; then you will truly care for all things.
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Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
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He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
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Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love.
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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
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From caring comes courage.
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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
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Stop leaving and you will arrive, Stop searching and you will see, Stop running away and you will be found.
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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
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Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
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The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.
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Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
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The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of duality, conflict, and dogma. As long as your shallow worldly ambitions exist, the door will not open.