Lao Tzu Quotes
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When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.
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Can you open and close the gate of Heaven and act like a woman?
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The Way is eternal. Until your last day, you are free from peril.
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Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.
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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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What honor can there be without humility? What heights can be reached without being low? The pieces of a chariot are useless unless the work in accordance with the whole A man's life brings nothing unless he lives in accordance with the whole universe Playing one's part in accordance with the universe is true humility So whether you're a gem in the royal court or a stone on the common path If you accept your part with humility the glory of the universe will be yours.
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Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
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Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.
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Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.
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You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science.
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Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.
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A climb of eight hundred feet starts where the foot stands.
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Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!
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A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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The brittle is easy to shatter.
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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.
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What resists, persists.
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A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.
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The Tao is like a well; used but never used up.
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Movement overcomes cold.
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To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
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If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
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Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.
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When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.