Laozi Quotes

• The wise man doesn't compete; therefore nobody can compete with him.

  Laozi

  Wise, Men, Competition

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• Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.

  Laozi

  Happiness, Pain, Ego

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

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• Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

  Laozi

  Darkness Within, Understanding, Tao Te Ching

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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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• The usefulness of the pot lies in its emptiness.

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  Lying, Emptiness, Pot

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• Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love.

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  Relationship, Kindness, Communication

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• To be learned, add something each day. To be enlightened drop something each day.

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  Add, Each Day, Enlightened

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

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  Believe, Needs, Convince

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

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  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

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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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• Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small.

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  Life, Issues, Tasks

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• Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is to say 'I don't want to.'

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  Inspirational, Time, Want

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• Wise men hear and see as little children do.

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  Wise, Children, Men

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• Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

  Laozi

  Life, Thinking, Light

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

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• The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge

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  Real, Self, Keys

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• The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.

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  Teacher, People, Needs

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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.

  Laozi

  Realizing

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• The biggest in the world is small in its beginning.

  Laozi

  Taoism, World, World Is Small

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• There is no illusion great than fear.

  Laozi

  Fear, Illusion

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• Life is going forth; death is returning home.

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  Death, Home, Life Is

  Lao Tzu, Laozi, Tom Butler-Bowdon (2012). “Tao Te Ching: The Ancient Classic”, p.105, John Wiley & Sons

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