Lao Tzu Quotes
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Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.
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Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.
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Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there is no self and other, and hence no one to be raised; no heaven and hell, and hence no destination.
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Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness.
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By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.
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Those who stay where they are will endure.
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The sage is one with the world, and lives in harmony with it.
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Good leaders reach solutions, and then stop. They do not dare to rely on force.
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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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There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart.
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What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao.
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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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Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord.
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The Way is ever without action, yet nothing is left undone.
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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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By compassion one can be brave.
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Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
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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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There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being; For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be.
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A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.
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The Great Vessel takes long to complete.
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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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Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness
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Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.