Laozi Quotes - Page 9

• He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

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  Positive, Encouragement, Powerful

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.36, Jain Publishing Company

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• A good door needs no lock, still it can't be opened.

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  Doors, Taoism, Needs

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• Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

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  Taoism, Desire, World

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• When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

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  Relationship, Respect, Being Yourself

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• A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.

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  Writing, Athlete, Games

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• You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science.

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  Body, Study, Fingers

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

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• Be who you are, and go the whole way.

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  Be Who You Are, Way, Whole

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• A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

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  Artist, Intuition, Want

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• Solve it before it happens. Order it before chaos emerges.

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  Order, Taoism, Chaos

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• Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

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  Self, Giving, Transformation

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

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• When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. Being and non-being create each other. Difficult and easy support each other. Long and short define each other. High and low depend on each other. Before and after follow each other. Therefore the Master acts without doing anything and teaches without saying anything. Things arise and she lets them come; things disappear and she lets them go. She has but doesn't possess, acts but doesn't expect. When her work is done, she forgets it. That is why it lasts forever.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Difficult And Easy

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• Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.

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  Mistake, Opportunity, Doe

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• The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.

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  Teaching, Taoism, World

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• The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.

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  Wise, Men, Motivational Sales

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• Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love.

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  Thinking, Giving, Taoism

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• Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.

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  Men, Honor, Deeds

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• Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor's son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief and spoke like a thief. But the man found his ax while digging in the valley, and the next time he saw his neighbor's son, the boy walked, looked and spoke like any other child.

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  Children, Son, Boys

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• Everything will settle in its own place automatically.

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  Settling

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• The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.

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  Doing Nothing, Masters, Accomplish

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• If one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding.

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  Giving, Profound, Understanding

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• How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.

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  Simple, Simplicity, Doe

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• Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.

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  Sight, Doors, Long

  Laozi (1905). “The Simple Way”

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• The eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you; one in seeing; one in knowing; one in loving.

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  Eye, Knowing, Seeing

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• The highest virtue seems as low as a valley.

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  Compassion, Taoism, Valleys

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• Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding.

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  Light, Darkness Within, Imagination

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