Taoism Quotes - Page 13

• Those who know when it is enough will not perish.

  Laozi

  Enough, Knows

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• Lightly given promises must meet with little trust.

  Laozi

  Promise, Littles, Given

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

  Laozi

  People, Heaven, Moderation

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• The sage regards things as difficult, and thereby avoids difficulty.

  Laozi

  Sage, Difficult, Regard

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• By moderation one can be generous.

  Laozi

  Moderation, Generous

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• Those who are content suffer no disgrace.

  Laozi

  Suffering, Disgrace

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• The sage never strives for greatness, and can therefore accomplish greatness.

  Laozi

  Greatness, Sage, Strive

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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.

  Laozi

  Doors, Safe, Lasts

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• Sexual desire may burn like fire, but when you give a thought to when you are ill, then your excitement dies down. Fame and fortune may be sweet as candy, but when you give a thought to when you die, then their flavor is like chewing wax. Therefore, if people are usually concerned about death and illness, this can also dissolve unreal activities and develop longing for the way.

  Zicheng Hong

  Sweet, Fire, People

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• Soil with a lot of manure in it produces abundant crops; water that is too clear has no fish. Therefore, enlightened people should maintain the capacity to accept impurities and should not be solitary perfectionists.

  Zicheng Hong

  Water, People, Soil

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• People know that fame and position are pleasant, but they do not know that the pleasure of anonymity is most real. People know that hunger and cold are distressing, but they do not know that the distress of not experiencing cold or hunger is greater.

  Zicheng Hong

  Real, People, Cold

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• The realms of good fortune and calamity in human life are all made of thoughts and imaginings. Therefore Buddhists say that the burning of desire for gain is itself a pit of fire, while drowning in greedy love is itself a bitter sea. The moment thoughts are pure, fierce flames become a pond; the moment you become aware, the boat has arrived on the further shore. If your thoughts vary at all, your world will immediately differ, so can we not be careful?

  Zicheng Hong

  Buddhist, Love Is, Fire

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• One should not seek happiness, just nurture the spirit of joy as the basis of summoning happiness. One should not try to escape misfortune, just get rid of viciousness as a means of avoiding misfortune.

  Zicheng Hong

  Mean, Joy, Trying

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• My body is in accord with my mind, my mind with my energies, my energies with my spirit, my spirit with Nothing.

  Lie Yukou

  Mind, Energy, Body

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• If you fear that people will know if you do something bad, then there is something good in bad. If you are eager for people to know when you do something good, then there is something bad in good.

  Zicheng Hong

  People, Knows, Ifs

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• The road of truth is broad; set the mind on it, and you feel expansive openness and broad clarity. The road of human desires is narrow; set foot on it, and you see brambles and mire before you.

  Zicheng Hong

  Feet, Mind, Desire

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• The workings of heaven are unfathomable-sometimes encouraging, sometimes suppressing. All this makes sport of heroes and tumbles the great. Enlightened people take adversity in stride and are prepared for trouble even when at ease; therefore, they are not at the mercy of fate.

  Zicheng Hong

  Sports, Hero, Adversity

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• Even a wild horse can be tamed; even metal that is difficult to work eventually goes into a mold. If you take it easy and do not stir yourself, you will never make any progress. It has been said, "It is no disgrace to have many afflictions: I would worry if there never were any afflictions."

  Zicheng Hong

  Horse, Worry, Progress

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• ...people of old deemed freedom from greed precious, and this is how they got beyond the world.

  Zicheng Hong

  People, Greed, World

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• Delicious foods are drugs that will inflame the gut and rot the bones, but there is no harm if one eats moderately. Delightful things are all purveyors of destruction and decadence, but there is no regret if one enjoys them moderately.

  Zicheng Hong

  Regret, Drug, Bones

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• The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the fool, the way of someone who doesn't need to be noticed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Essence, Needs

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• The limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer women.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Men, Description

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• In adversity, everything that surrounds you is a kind of medicine that helps you refine your conduct, yet you are unaware of it. In pleasant situations, you are faced with weapons that will tear you apart, yet you do not realize it.

  Zicheng Hong

  Adversity, Medicine, Tears

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• Valuing unusual conduct is not as good as being careful about ordinary actions.

  Zicheng Hong

  Ordinary, Action, Unusual

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• When you meet silent and inscrutable people, don't tell them what you are thinking. When you meet irritable and self-serving people, be careful what you say.

  Zicheng Hong

  Thinking, Self, People

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