Laozi Quotes - Page 5

• If you worry more for others' beliefs, then you will be their slave.

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  Worry, Taoism, Belief

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• Develop the strength of a man, but live as gently as a woman

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  Men

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• Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity

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  Inspirational, Secret, Eternity

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• A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.

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  Wind, Tree, Cracks

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• Empty your mind of all thoughts.

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  Loss, Mind, Empty

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• Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . . If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao, don't get caught up in spiritual superficialities.

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  Spiritual, Prayer, Breathing

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

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• Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.

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  Love, Giving Up, People

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• I do not act, and people become reformed by themselves.

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  People, Taoism

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• Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

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  Triumph, Principles, Mastery

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• Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.

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  Thinking, Form, Slips

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• Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.

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  Inspirational, Taoism, Needs

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• There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.

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  Opponents, Underestimate, Danger

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• Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight

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  Light, Sight, Over You

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• Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The Master observes the world, but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. His heart is as open as the sky.

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  Heart, Sky, Taoism

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• When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

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  People, Tao Te Ching, Book Of Tao

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• If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.

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  Wise, Men, Thinking

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• Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

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  Inspirational, Confidence, Self Esteem

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• The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.

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  Knowledge, Taoism, Sage

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• I have three treasures which I hold and keep. The first is mercy; the second is economy. The third is daring not to be ahead of others. From mercy comes courage; from economy comes generosity; From humility comes leadership.

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  Humility, Generosity, Treasure

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Deal with the small before it becomes large.

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  Deals

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• If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve

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  Inspirational, Change, Spiritual

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• To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

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  Book, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• To know and not to do is not yet to know.

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  Knows

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• I alone have the mind of a fool, and am all muddled and vague. The people are so smart and bright. While I am just dull and confused.

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  Confused, Smart, People

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