Lao Tzu Quotes
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When you accept yourself, the Universe accepts you.
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Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
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To know and not to do is not yet to know.
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If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow them from behind.
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Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier. Throw away morality and justice, and people will do the right thing. Throw away industry and profit, and there won't be any thieves. If these three aren't enough, just stay at the center of the circle and let all things take their course.
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The liberation cannot be reached but by means of the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the universal spirit.
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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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He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.
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Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.
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Those who stay where they are will endure.
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Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.
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The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice.
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Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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The way of heaven is to help and not harm.
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The purest white seems stained.
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All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.
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Praise of power leads to weakness; Love of things leads to loss; The wise one leads by filling people's hearts; He destroys illusion and disturbs those who believe they are wise; He does nothing yet everything happens.
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The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation.
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See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things.
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Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.
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A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.
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Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.