Taoism Quotes - Page 20

• Stillness is the ruler of haste.

  Laozi

  Haste, Rulers, Stillness

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• Stillness is easy to maintain.

  Laozi

  Easy, Stillness

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• A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.

  Laozi

  Multitudes, Tiresome

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• Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves.

  Laozi

  People, Tasks, Quiet

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• To be of few words is natural.

  Laozi

  Few Words, Natural

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• Peace and quiet govern the world.

  Laozi

  World, Quiet, Peace And Quiet

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• Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.

  Laozi

  Tools, Noble, Use

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• Those who defeat others are strong, those who defeat themselves are mighty.

  Laozi

  Strong, Defeat

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• The powerful and prominent soar like dragons, the heroic and valiant fight like tigers: but if you look upon them with cool eyes, they are like ants gathering on rancid meet, like flies swarming on blood. Judgments of right and wrong bristle like porcupine quills: but if you meet them with cool feelings, that is like a forge melting metal, like hot water dissolving snow.

  Zicheng Hong

  Powerful, Eye, Fighting

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• To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.

  Zhuangzi

  Exercise, Firsts, Steps

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• Those who turn things around by themselves do not rejoice at gain or grieve over loss; the whole world is the range they roam. Those who are themselves used by things hate it when events go against them and love it when they go their way; the slightest thing can create binding entanglements.

  Zicheng Hong

  Hate, Loss, Grieving

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• Those who like tranquility and dislike clamor tend to avoid people to seek quietude. They do not know that when one wishes there were no one around, that is egotism; and when the mind is attached to quietude, that is the root of disturbance. How can they reach the state where others and oneself are seen as one, where disturbance and quietude are both forgotten.

  Zicheng Hong

  Roots, People, Mind

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• Even if you can't get rid of the heat, as long as you can get rid of bother with the heat, your body is always on a cool terrace. Even if you can't get rid of poverty, as long as you can get rid of the sadness of poverty, your mind always lives in a comfortable abode.

  Zicheng Hong

  Sadness, Long, Mind

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• Excellent soldiers are not furious.

  Laozi

  Soldier, Excellent, Furious

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• Yielding is the way of the Tao.

  Laozi

  Acceptance, Way, Tao Ching

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• Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao.

  Laozi

  Time, Expression, Space

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

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• When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside the city.

  Laozi

  Horse, War, Cities

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• The unyielding army will not win.

  Laozi

  Army, Winning, Unyielding

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• All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Water, Needs

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• Though (the Tao) is uncreated itself, it creates all things. Because it has no substance, it can enter into where there is no space. Exercising by returning to itself, winning victories by remaining gentle and yielding, it is softer than anything, and therefore overcomes everything hard.

  Laozi

  Exercise, Winning, Space

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• He who knows himself is enlightened.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Hypocrisy, Enlightened

  Laozi (2002). “Tao Te Ching: The Way of Virtue”, p.45, Square One Publishers, Inc.

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.

  Laozi

  Change, Artist, Intuition

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• Those who have compassion when they do battle will be victorious. Those who likewise defend themselves will be safe. Heaven will rescue and protect them with compassion.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Heaven, Battle

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• When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious.

  Laozi

  Army, Grieving, Battle

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• Excellent warriors are not violent.

  Laozi

  Warrior, Excellent, Violent

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