Lao Tzu Quotes
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Praise and disgrace cause fear.
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The female always surpasses the male with stillness. In her stillness she is yielding.
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Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby?
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Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.
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Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.
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Heaven's Way gives no favors. It always remains with good people.
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That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
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Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound union.
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The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting.
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A good speaker does not stutter.
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...The sage, traveling all day, Does not lose sight of his baggage. Though there are beautiful things to be seen, He remains unattached and calm.
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The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.
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There is no greater fault than sensual indulgence. There is no greater misfortune than malcontent. There is no greater calamity than greed.
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To the good I would be good; to the not-good I would also be good, in order to make them good.
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Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.
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The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle with it you will ruin it. If you try to own it you will lose it.
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When you let go of what you are, you become what you might be.
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The Master doesn't seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness.
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If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.
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Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.