Taoism Quotes - Page 11

• People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.

  Laozi

  People, Too Much

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• Truly, only acting without thought of one's life is superior to valuing one's life.

  Laozi

  Acting, Life Is, Superiors

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• All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.

  Laozi

  Tree, Dry, Grass

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• The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.

  Laozi

  Weak, Companion, Hard

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• The purest white seems stained.

  Laozi

  White, Seems

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• People are born soft and weak. They die hard and stiff.

  Laozi

  People, Weak, Born

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• When people do not dread authorities, then a greater dread descends.

  Laozi

  People, Authority, Dread

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• If princes and kings could follow it (Tao), all things would by themselves abide, Heaven and Earth would unite and sweet dew would fall. People would by themselves find harmony, without being commanded.

  Laozi

  Sweet, Kings, Fall

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• The whole world says that my Way is great like nothing else. It is great because it is like nothing else. If it were like everything else, it would long ago have become insignificant.

  Laozi

  Long Ago, World, Way

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• Can you open and close the gate of Heaven and act like a woman?

  Laozi

  Heaven, Gates Of Heaven, Gates

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• A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female.

  Laozi

  Country, Rivers, Female

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• The world's beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.

  Laozi

  Mother, Children, World

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• Hold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning.

  Laozi

  Way, Ancient, Masters

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• I alone am different from the others, because I am nourished by the great mother.

  Laozi

  Mother, Different, Great Mother

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• Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Errors, Knowing

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• Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.

  Laozi

  Honesty, Confusion, Fidelity

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• Wear down to be renewed.

  Laozi

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• Can you make your soul embrace the One and not lose it?

  Laozi

  Soul, Embrace, Loses

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• The soft and weak can overcome the hard and strong.

  Laozi

  Strong, Overcoming, Weak

  "Tao Tê Ching".

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• All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.

  Laozi

  World, Born, All Things

  "Daodejing: A Literal-critical Translation".

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• The valley spirit never dies. It is called the mystical female.

  Laozi

  Female, Valleys, Spirit

  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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• Letting the mind control the vital breath is called force.

  Laozi

  Mind, Force, Breaths

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• Yielding is the manner of the Way.

  Laozi

  Way

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• Heaven's Way does not contend, yet it certainly triumphs. It does not speak, yet it certainly answers. It does not summon, yet things come by themselves. It seems to be at rest, yet it certainly has a plan.

  Laozi

  Heaven, Triumph, Doe

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• When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.

  Laozi

  Use, Sage, Splits

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