Lao Tzu Quotes
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Other people have more than they need, I alone seem wanting.
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Stop thinking, and end your problems.
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When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
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If there is to be peace in the world, There must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations, There must be peace in the cities. If there is to be peace in the cities, There must be peace between neighbors. If there is to be peace between neighbors, There must be peace in the home. If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
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Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.
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Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.
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As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom is bent up. It adjusts excess and deficiency so that there is perfect balance.
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He who treasures his body as much as the world can care for the world.
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From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.
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Letting the mind control the vital breath is called force.
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A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.
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Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
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Can you make your soul embrace the One and not lose it?
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Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, you position is shaky. When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance. What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear? Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear? See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things.
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Whoever is planted in the Tao will not be rooted up. Whoever embraces the Tao will not slip away. Her name will be held in honor from generation to generation. Let the Tao be present in your life and you will become genuine. Let it be present in your family and your family will flourish. Let it be present in your country and your country will be an example to all countries in the world. Let it be present in the universe and the universe will sing. How do I know this is true? By looking inside myself.
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Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small.
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Develop the strength of a man, but live as gently as a woman.
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. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.
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If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.