Lao Tzu Quotes
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Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. I wish you Happy New Year and diary full of best stories ever written in your life.
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He who is contented is rich.
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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The best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves the communal good. The best leader follows the will of the people. All of the embody the virtue of non-competition. Not that they don't love to compete, but they do it in the spirit of play. In this they are like children and in harmony with the Tao.
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Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pots not is where it's useful. Cut doors and windows to make a room. Where the room isn't, there's room for you. So the profit in what is, is in the use of what isn't.
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He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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Be the chief but never the lord.
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Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
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Observe how endings become beginnings.
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Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
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All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.
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Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.
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If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.
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Things flourish, then each returns to its root. Returning to the root is called stillness: Stillness is called return to life, return to life is called the constant; knowing the constant is called enlightenment.
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The wise man knows he doesn't know.
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I confess that there is nothing to teach: no religion, no science, no writings which will lead your mind back to Spirit. Today I speak this way, tomorrow that, but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.
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I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
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If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.
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Good walking leaves no track behind it.
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People are born soft and weak. They die hard and stiff.
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The Way to Heaven has no favorites. It is always with the good man.
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Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
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If a great country yields to a small country, it will conquer the small country. If a small country yields to a great country, it will be conquered by the great country.