Lao Tzu Quotes
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Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
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He who knows enough is enough will always have enough.
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What resists, persists.
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The brittle is easy to shatter.
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Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.
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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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When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
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What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.
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We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.
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The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.
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Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.
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The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.
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Can you open and close the gate of Heaven and act like a woman?
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Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.
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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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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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Movement overcomes cold.
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Meandering leads to perfection.
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Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed.
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The sage embraces the one, and is an example to the world.