Lao Tzu Quotes
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If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve. Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.
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Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place.
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Let the country be small, and the inhabitants few.
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Countless words count less than the silent balance between yin and yang
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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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There is no greater mistake than to make light of an enemy By making light of an enemy many a kingdom has been lost.
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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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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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If you can find true contentment, it will last forever.
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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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High and low rest on each other.
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Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.
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The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things.
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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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Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life.
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Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.
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Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.
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Those who have the courage to dare will perish. Those who have the courage not to dare will live.
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There is something obscure which is complete before heaven and earth arose; tranquil, quiet, standing alone without change, moving without peril. It could be the mother of everything. Not knowing its name, I call it Tao.
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Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known.
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Do not strive for the shine of jade, but clatter like stone.
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Going forward seems like retreat.
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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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Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.