Lao Tzu Quotes
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Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.
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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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For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.
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That which is achieved the most, still has the whole of its future yet to be achieved.
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By compassion one can be brave.
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The most complete seems lacking. Yet in use it is not exhausted.
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Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
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Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.
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High and low rest on each other.
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Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.
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Allow your softer, more intuitive, and less dominating feminine qualities to rise to the fore, so that you're surrendering rather than dominating, receiving rather than broadcasting, loving rather than fighting.
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The world's beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.
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The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.
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Just as the value of a house lies in its location, The value of a mind lies in its depth, The value of giving lies in the presence of a generous spirit, The value of words lies in their reliability.
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Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.
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To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only those who know when they are deluded can free themselves from such delusion. The intelligent people are not deluded, because they know and accept their ignorance as ignorance, and thereby have genuine knowledge.
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Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.
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Man is ruled by Earth. Earth is ruled by Heaven. Heaven is ruled by the Way. The Way is ruled by itself.
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Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.
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By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.
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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
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Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord.
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Countless words count less than the silent balance between yin and yang
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When family ties are disturbed, devoted children arise.