Lao Tzu Quotes
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Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.
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Without stepping out the door, you can know the world.
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When you are one with loss, the loss is experienced willingly.
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With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
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Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root.
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There is no greater disaster than discontent.
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Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.
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Dualistic thinking is a sickness.
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Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
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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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The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to yin and yang. Yin and yang give birth to all things... The complete whole is the complete whole. So also is any part the complete whole... But forget about understanding and harmonizing and making all things one. The universe is already a harmonious oneness; just realize it.
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The wise person dines on something more subtle: He eats the understanding that the named was born from the unnamed, that all being flows from non-being, that the describable world emanates from an indescribable source.
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A good mooring needs no knot, still no one can untie it.
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The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.
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Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.
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Because he (the Sage) opposes no one, no one in the world can oppose him.
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Gain or loss, what is worse?
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Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
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Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful.
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Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.