Laozi Quotes - Page 23

• Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.

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  Inspirational, Clever, Integrity

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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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  Cutting, Hands, Dying

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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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  Men, Giving, Generosity

  Laozi, Gia-fu Feng, Jane English (1972). “Tao te ching”, Random House Inc

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• Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look out at the stars. This practice should answer the question..... The master settles her mind as the universe settles the stars in the sky. By connecting her mind with the subtle origin, she calms it. Once calmed, it naturally expands, and ultimately her mind becomes as vast and immeasurable as the night sky.

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  Stars, Night, Practice

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• In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.

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  Heart, Land, Dwelling

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.

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  Teaching, Talent, Notes

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.

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  Light, Use, Return

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• The way is light and fluid for the man with
  no preferences.

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  Inspirational, Letting Go, Men

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• The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.

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  Humility, Sea, Rivers

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• Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune.

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  Roots, Giving, Birth

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• To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths.

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  Compassion, Brave, Taoism

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• Superior leaders get things done with very little motion. They impart instruction not through many words, but through a few deeds. They keep informed about everything but interfere hardly at all. They are catalysts, and though things would not get done as well if they were not there, when they succeed they take no credit. And, because they take no credit, credit never leaves them.

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  Leadership, Done, Deeds

  "Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success" by Jim Clemmer, (p. 137), 1999.

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• Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.

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  Compassion, Knowing, Honor

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• If you really want everything, then give up everything.

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  Giving Up, Giving, Want

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• That so few understand me is why I am treasured.

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  Knowledge, Taoism, Understand Me

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• Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.

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  Acceptance, White, Black

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• Those who do not trust enough should not be trusted.

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  Enough, Should, Trusted

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• When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts.

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  Love, Heart, People

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• The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.

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  Inspirational, Accomplishment, Taoism

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• Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Thought Provoking

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.117, Chinese University Press

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• Express yourself completely, then keep quiet. Be like the forces of nature: when it blows, there is only wind; when it rains, there is only rain; when the clouds pass, the sun shines through. If you open yourself to the Tao, you are at one with the Tao and you can embody it completely. If you open yourself to insight, you are at one with insight and you can use it completely. If you open yourself to loss, you are at one with loss and you can accept it completely. Open yourself to the Tao, then trust your natural responses; and everything will fall into place.

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  Rain, Fall, Loss

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• The inner is the foundation of the outer. The still is master of the restless. The Sage travels all day yet never leaves his inner treasure.

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  Foundation, Sage, Treasure

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• Those who know when to halt are unharmed.

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  Taoism, Halt, Knows

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• The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.

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  Love, Jewels, Clothes

  Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching: A New Translation”

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• That, which others compress - will widen up and open. That, which others weaken - will strengthen. That, which others destroy - will blossom. Whoever wished to take something from the other, will inevitably loose his own.

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