Lao Tzu Quotes
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Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.
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The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.
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That which offers no resistance can enter where there is no space.
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The truly wise are content to be last. They are, therefore, first. They are indifferent to themselves. They are, therefore self-confident.
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Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.
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A good counter needs no calculator.
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Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love.
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The best way to manage anything is by making use of its own nature.
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Deal with the small before it becomes large.
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If you fail to honor your people, They will fail to honor you; It is said of a good leader that When the work is done, the aim fulfilled, The people will say, "We did this ourselves."
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Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your wrongdoings?
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Nurture the spontaneous peaceful life.
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Returning is the movement of the Way.
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The best form of leadership is to be conscious of the leadership potential with the followers and to let them unleash this potential in a spontaneous way. When a great leader accomplishes this task with effortless ease, the followers say, "We did it ourselves."
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The brittle is easy to shatter.
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Treat the large as the small and the few as the many.
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Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.
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The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas... However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.
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Can you open and close the gate of Heaven and act like a woman?
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Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.
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The eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you; one in seeing; one in knowing; one in loving.
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Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.
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Peace and quiet are preferred. Victory should not be praised.
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I am at peace, and people become fair by themselves.