Lao Tzu Quotes
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If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.
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When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.
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Every step is on the path.
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In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!
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To be of few words is natural.
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He does not seek power - yet people follow him.
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Simple, like uncarved wood.
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For one gains by losing And loses by gaining.
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In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.
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A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.
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A good door needs no lock, still it can't be opened.
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Being is born of not being.
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Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.
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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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Appetite for food and sex is nature.
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Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.
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Going forward seems like retreat.
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Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.
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My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.
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Those who know others are intelligent Those who know themselves have insight. Those who master others have force Those who master themselves have strength.Those who know what is enough are wealthy. Those who persevere have direction. Those who maintain their position endure. And those who die and yet do not perish, live on.
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Justice has long arm.
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The most complete seems lacking. Yet in use it is not exhausted.
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Going back to the origin is called peace; it means reversion to destiny. Reversion to destiny is called eternity. Those who know eternity are called enlightened.
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Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people's greatest help. True words seem paradoxical.