Lao Tzu Quotes
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When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.
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Even the longest journey must begin where you stand.
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Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.
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The unyielding army will not win.
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Throw away sacredness and wisdom and people will be one hundred times happier.
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The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil. The Master doesn't take sides; she welcomes both saints and sinners. The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand. Hold on to the center.
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Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have taught, I also teach; verily, I will make it the root of my teaching.
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What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.
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The noble must make humility his root.
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Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.
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Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.
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Kindness in words creates confidence.
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Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.
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Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life.
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When you find the way/ others will find you./ Passing by on the road/ they will be drawn to your door./ The way that cannot be heard/ will be echoed in your voice./ The way that cannot be seen/ will be reflected in your eyes.
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If you want to know me, look inside your heart.
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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
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Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.
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Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way.
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Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.
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Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.
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Those who are one with deprivation are deprived of deprivation.
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Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial; they abide with realities, they do not remain with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.