Laozi Quotes

• Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

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  Motivational, Wisdom, Determination

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• Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

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  Inspirational, Relationship, Wise

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• If you understand others you are smart.
  If you understand yourself you are illuminated.
  If you overcome others you are powerful.
  If you overcome yourself you have strength.
  If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.
  If you can act with vigor, you have a will.
  If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting.
  If you die without loss, you are eternal.

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  Powerful, Smart, Loss

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  If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Self

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

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• One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

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  Believe, Needs, Convince

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• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

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  Life, Change, Spiritual

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• Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.

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  Encouraging, Positivity, Water

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• See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things

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  Badass, Greatness, Simplicity

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.

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  Greed, Thieves, Profit

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• Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.

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  Life, Wise, Wisdom

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• True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.

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  Knowledge, Taoism, True Words

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• We are all capable of much more than we think we are.

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  Healing, Thinking, Humanity

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• If there is to be peace in the world,
  There must be peace in the nations.
  If there is to be peace in the nations,
  There must be peace in the cities.
  If there is to be peace in the cities,
  There must be peace between neighbors.
  If there is to be peace between neighbors,
  There must be peace in the home.
  If there is to be peace in the home,
  There must be peace in the heart.

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  Peace, Home, Heart

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• Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

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  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

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• Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?

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  Names, Taoism, Body

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• Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.

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  Letting Go, Knowledge, Taoism

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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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• Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

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  Meditation, Feel Good, Taoism

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• Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.

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  Nature, Watches, Way

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• Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

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  Success, Weed, Dream

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  Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.

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  Education, Tao Te Ching, Intelligence

  Laozi, Lao-Tzu, Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo (2007). “Tao Te Ching”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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• New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

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  Cancer, New Beginnings, Hard Times

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• I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

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• If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.

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  Spiritual, Kindness, Wicked

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