Laozi Quotes - Page 25

• Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

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  Failure, Rushing, Trying

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• The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.

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  Taoism, Virtue, Virtuous

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• Those who show off do not shine.

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  Shining, Taoism, Shows

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• Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one's fate. Returning to one's fate is eternal.

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  Fate, Taoism, Source

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• Nature doesn't make long speeches.

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  Nature, Long, Speech

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• Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is still small. Difficult undertakings have always started with what easy. Great undertakings always started with what is small. Therefore the sage never strives for the great,And thereby the great is achieved.

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  Character, Sage, Easy

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• The Tao's principle is spontaneity.

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  Taoism, Principles, Tao

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• Kindness in giving creates love.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

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• The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to it, and guided by wisdom rather than emotion. Whole and virtuous, it can never die.

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  Life, Self, Ego

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

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  Men, Hair, Tree

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• In dwelling, live close to the ground.
  In thinking, keep to the simple.
  In conflict, be fair and generous.
  In governing, don't try to control.
  In work, do what you enjoy.
  In family life, be completely present.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

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• The man of knowledge acquires something new everyday, and the man of Tao lets go of something new every day.

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  Letting Go, Men, Everyday

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• Harmony is called the eternal. Knowing the eternal is called clarity.

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  Knowing, Taoism, Clarity

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• The world's big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.

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  Humble, Attention, Done

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• My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.

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  Knowledge, People, Taoism

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• The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

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  Inspirational, Growing Up, Keys

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• Great accomplishment seems imperfect,
  Yet it does not outlive its usefulness.
  Great fullness seems empty,
  Yet it cannot be exhausted.

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  Accomplishment, Perfection, Doe

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• He who knows enough is enough will always have enough.

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  Inspirational, Giving Up, Enough

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• ...the more you talk of it, the less you understand.

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  Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Saints And Sinners

  Laozi (2016). “The Tao Te Ching: Annotated Edition”, p.97, Dudeism LLC

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• When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the Tao, warheads are stockpiled outside the cities. There is no greater illusion than fear, no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.

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  Country, Fear, Cities

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• The things that have acquired unity are these: Heaven by unity has become clear; Earth by unity has become steady; The Spirit by unity has become spiritual; The Valley by unity has become full; All things by unity have come into existence.

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  Spiritual, Hurt, Heaven

  Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching”

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• The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

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  Wise, Men, Taoism

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• That which offers no resistance can enter where there is no space.

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  Space, Taoism, Resistance

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• The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.

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  Dwelling, Taoism, Doe

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• We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We make a vessel from a lump of clay; But it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. We make doors and windows for a room; But it is the empty spaces that make the room livable. Thus, while existence has advantages, It is the emptiness that makes it useful.

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  Doors, Space, Clay

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