Lao Tzu Quotes
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Appetite for food and sex is nature.
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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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Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
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Justice has long arm.
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Do not strive for the shine of jade, but clatter like stone.
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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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. . . 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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There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart.
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When family ties are disturbed, devoted children arise.
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There is no greater crime than desire.
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The highest tone is hard to hear.
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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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Peacefulness is an inner sense of calm - it comes from becoming still - in order to reflect and meditate on our inner wisdom and receive answers. A peaceful heart is one that is free from worry and rouble. It's becoming quiet so we can look at things quietly so we can more clearly understand them and thus come up with creative solutions. It is learning to live in the present. Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
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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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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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Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.
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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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If you can find true contentment, it will last forever.
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Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.
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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.
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The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning.
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High and low rest on each other.
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Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.
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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.