Taoism Quotes - Page 18

• What is and what is not create each other.

  Laozi

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• All things carry yin and embrace yang. They reach harmony by blending with the vital breath.

  Laozi

  Yang, Harmony, Embrace

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• The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.

  Laozi

  Demand, Way, Obedience

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• It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler. So, it can be called great.

  Laozi

  Desire, Doe, Return

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• The Way is hidden and nameless. Still only the Way nourishes and completes.

  Laozi

  Way, Nameless, Stills

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• Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end.

  Laozi

  Decay, Way, Ends

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• The great Way is very straight, but people prefer to deviate.

  Laozi

  People, Way, Deviate

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• What's the difference between yes and no?

  Laozi

  Differences, Yes And No

  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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• Heaven and Earth are not kind. They regard all things as offerings.

  Laozi

  Offering, Heaven, Earth

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• First and last follow each other.

  Laozi

  Lasts, Firsts, Firsts And Lasts

  Laozi (2009). “Lao-tzu's Taoteching: With Selected Commentaries from the Past 2,000 Years”

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• High and low rest on each other.

  Laozi

  Lows, Highs And Lows

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• All things arise in unison. Thereby we see their return.

  Laozi

  Return, Arise, Unison

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• All things flourish, and each returns to its source.

  Laozi

  Return, Source, All Things

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

  Laozi

  Strong, Morning, Rain

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• If Heaven and Earth are unable to persist, how could man?

  Laozi

  Men, Heaven, Earth

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• Man is ruled by Earth. Earth is ruled by Heaven. Heaven is ruled by the Way. The Way is ruled by itself.

  Laozi

  Men, Heaven, Earth

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• What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea.

  Laozi

  Sea, Rivers, World

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• If Heaven were not clear it might rend. If Earth were not firm it might crumble.

  Laozi

  Heaven, Earth, Might

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• True words seem false.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, True Words, Seems

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• All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Change, Motivation

  Laozi (1905). “The Simple Way”

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• Behave simply and hold on to purity.

  Laozi

  Purity, Behave

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• Simple, like uncarved wood.

  Laozi

  Simple, Woods

  Laozi (2009). “Lao-tzu's Taoteching: With Selected Commentaries from the Past 2,000 Years”

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• The sage attends to the belly, and not to what he sees.

  Laozi

  Sage, Belly

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• The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies.

  Laozi

  Sage, Filling, Belly

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• Those who are unswerving have resolve

  Laozi

  Resolve

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