Laozi Quotes - Page 49

• [The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.

  Laozi

  Motivational, Leadership, Jewels

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• A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet.
  A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
  A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet.

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  Journey, Feet, Towers

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• To attain to the human form must always be a source of joy. And then to undergo continuous transitions, with only the infinite to look forward to: what incomparable bliss is that!

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  Joy, Transition, Looks

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• What is strong and rigid is snapped and laid low. What is flexible and soft will always prevail.

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  Strong, Lows, Flexible

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• The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.

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  Dry, Plant, Flexible

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• When leading people and serving Heaven, nothing exceeds moderation.

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  People, Heaven, Taoism

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• Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

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  Deep Love, Leader, World

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• He who walks on tip-toe does not walk on solid ground.

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  Doe, Toes, Walks

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• Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.

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  Positivity, Water, Clear

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• When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Laughter

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• The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound of earth. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

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  Success, Journey, Two

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• The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

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  Names, Tao Te Ching, Taoism

  Laozi, Bi Wang, Paul J. Lin (1977). “A translation of Lao Tzu's Tao te ching and Wang Pi's commentary”, Univ of Michigan Center for chinese

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• I do not know its name. I call it the Way. For the lack of better words I call it great.

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  Names, Taoism, Way

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• Of all things, none does not revere the Way and honor virtue. Reverence of the Way and honoring virtue were not demanded of them, but it is in their nature.

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  Honor, Taoism, Doe

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• Wary, as if surrounded by strangers.

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  Taoism, Stranger, Ifs

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• Seal the openings, shut the doors, and until your last day you will not be exhausted. Widen the openings, interfere, and until your last day you will not be safe.

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  Doors, Taoism, Safe

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• Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.

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  Taoism, Gold, Jade

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• People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve.

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  People, Taoism, Too Much

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• The Way is the source of all things, good people's treasure and bad people's refuge.

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  People, Taoism, Treasure

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• Heaven's Way gives no favors. It always remains with good people.

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  People, Giving, Heaven

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• Cultivate virtue in yourself, and it will be true.

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  Taoism, Virtue, Being True

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• Those who are unswerving have resolve

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  Taoism, Resolve

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• The rigid tree will be felled.

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  Tree, Taoism

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• When the sage stands above people, they are not oppressed. When he leads people, they are not obstructed. The world will exalt him and not grow tired of him.

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  Tired, People, Taoism

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• The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.

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  Taoism, Subjects, Supreme

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