Laozi Quotes - Page 7

• To understand the limitation of things, desire them.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Desire, Tao Ching

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• The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

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  Life, Wise, Learning

  Laozi, Lao-Tzu, Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo (2007). “Tao Te Ching”, p.81, Shambhala Publications

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• People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

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  Inspirational, Life And Love, Failure

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• Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.

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  Wish, Bows, Moderation

  Laozi (1999). “Laozi”

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• Strong winds do not last all morning, hard rains do not last all day.

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  Strong, Morning, Rain

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• Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose

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  Inspirational, Gains, Loses

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• Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.

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  Knowledge, Taoism, Illness

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• The Great Vessel takes long to complete.

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  Long, Taoism, Vessel

  "Lao-tzu: Te-tao ching : a new translation based on the recently discovered Ma-wang-tui texts".

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• Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.

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  Art, Martial Arts

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• When you are one with loss, the loss is experienced willingly.

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  Loss, Taoism, Tao Ching

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

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  Taoism, Failing, Loses

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• Be content with an ordinary life.

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  Ordinary, Ordinary Life

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• Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness.

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  Taoism, Emptiness, Steadfast

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• Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.

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  Love, Inspirational, Blocked

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• Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

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  Change, Life Changing, Acceptance

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• Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

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  Money, Heart, Knives

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• In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man.

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  Love, Heart, Men

  Laozi (2015). “Tao Te Ching”, p.79, Booklassic

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• The wise man doesn't compete; therefore nobody can compete with him.

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  Wise, Men, Competition

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• Quarrel with a friend - and you are both wrong.

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  Friendship, Quarrels

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• As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

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• Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love.

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  Relationship, Kindness, Communication

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• Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

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  Success, Weed, Dream

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• So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.

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  Strength, Breathing, Balance

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

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  Flower, Careers, Two

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• Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.

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  Kindness, Business, Design

  Laozi, Sepharial (1904). “The Book of the Simple Way of Laotze: A New Translation from the Text of the Tao-teh-king”

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