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

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  Inspirational, Relationship, Wise

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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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• New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

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  Cancer, New Beginnings, Hard Times

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• Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone.

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  Philosophy, Doe, Harmony

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• Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.

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  Wise, Clever, Knowledge

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• For knowledge, add something every day. For wisdom....subtract.

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  Add

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• He who controls the past controls the future.

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  Future, Past, Political Language

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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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• 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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  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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• If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.

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  Wisdom, Tao Te Ching, Taoism

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• You will understand a great truth when you get to realize that what you do to others, you are doing to yourself.

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  Realizing

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• The perfect square lacks corners.

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  Squares, Perfect, Taoism

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• Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

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  Triumph, Principles, Mastery

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• The value of actions lies in their timing.

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  Lying, Achievement, Action

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• You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow.

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  Giving, Determine, Withholding

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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.

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  Weed, Dream, Opportunity For Success

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• Stop leaving and you will arrive, Stop searching and you will see, Stop running away and you will be found.

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  Inspirational, Running, Spiritual

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• Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

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  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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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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• Kind words elicit trust. Kind thoughts create depth. Kind deeds bring love.

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  Kindness, Kind Thoughts, Kind Deeds

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• Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.

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  Peace, War, Fool

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