Lao Tzu Quotes
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Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.
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For one gains by losing And loses by gaining.
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What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven converge; or like the female throughout the world, who by quiescence always overcomes the male. And quiescence is a form of humility.
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Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.
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We are all capable of much more than we think we are.
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Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.
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Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.
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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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If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.
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The Way to do is to be.
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The valley spirit never dies. It is called the mystical female.
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Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is close to the Way.
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The Way is ever without action, yet nothing is left undone.
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By following this simple path, you become extraordinary, unfathomable, a being of profound cosmic subtlety. You outlive time and space by realizing the subtle truth of the universe.
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What's the difference between beautiful and ugly?
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Going forward seems like retreat.
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If you can find true contentment, it will last forever.
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Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known.
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He does not seek glory - yet people respect him.
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If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?
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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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One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.
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As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever.
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Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.