Laozi Quotes - Page 36

• A brave and passionate man will kill or be killed.
  A brave and calm man will always preserve life.
  Of these two which is good and which is harmful?

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  Men, Two, Brave

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

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• The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement. Thus the Master travels all day without leaving home. However splendid the views, she stays serenely in herself. Why should the lord of the country flit about like a fool? If you let yourself be blown to and fro, you lose touch with your root. If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you are.

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  Country, Moving, Home

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• Racing and hunting excite man's heart to madness.

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  Heart, Men, Hunting

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• The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.

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  War, Funeral, Sorrow

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• The Way of Heaven does not complete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.

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  Heaven, Victory, Doe

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• There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.

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  Heaven, Taoism, Earth

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• If princes and kings were not exalted they might be overthrown.

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  Kings, Taoism, Might

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• The sage attends to the belly, and not to what he sees.

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  Taoism, Sage, Belly

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• The best way to live / is to be like water / For water benefits all things / and goes against none of them.

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  Water, Way To Live, Benefits

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• Nothing is weaker than water, Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong, Nothing surpasses it.

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  Strong, Water, Overcoming

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• Words spoken about the Way have no taste. When looked at, there's not enough to see. When listened to, there's not enough to hear. When used, it is never exhausted.

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  Taoism, Way, Taste

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• Those who know when it is enough will not perish.

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  Taoism, Enough, Knows

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• Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.

  Laozi

  Misery

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• I have three treasures that I cherish. The first is compassion. The second is moderation. The third is not claiming to be first in the world.

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  Compassion, Taoism, Three

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• Because he is a living divinity, when he acts, the universe acts.

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  Life, Divinity, Universe

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

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• If Heaven and Earth are unable to persist, how could man?

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  Men, Heaven, Taoism

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• Great acts are made up of small deeds.

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  Inspirational, Procrastination, Bad Day

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• The sage honors his part of the settlement, but does not exact his due from others.

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  Compassion, Honor, Taoism

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• It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler. So, it can be called great.

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  Taoism, Desire, Doe

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• Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.

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  Inspirational, Taken, Silence

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• The most complete seems lacking. Yet in use it is not exhausted.

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  Taoism, Use, Exhausted

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• All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

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  World, Miscellaneous, All Things

  Tao-te Ching ch. 40 (translation byWing-Tsit Chan)

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• The more we give to others, the more we are increased.

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  Giving

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• He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to be renewed.

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  Taoism, Needs, Excess

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• Being is born of not being.

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  Born

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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