Laozi Quotes

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

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  Inspirational, Relationship, Wise

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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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  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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  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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• 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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• Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

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  Evil, Giving, Tao Te Ching

  Laozi (2008). “Daodejing: A Literal-critical Translation”, University Press of Amer

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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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• Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

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  Uplifting, Confidence, Motivation

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• Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.

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  Inspirational, Kindness, Heart

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• A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.

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  Broken Heart, Acceptance, Tree

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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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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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

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  Journey, Fortune Cookie, Steps

  "The Book of the Simple Way of Laotze: A New Translation from the Text of the Tao-teh-king".

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• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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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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• People aren't against you; they are for themselves. The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. He who conquers others is strong, he who conquers himself is mighty.

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  Strong, People, Risk

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• Before healing others, heal yourself

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  Healing, Health, Heal

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• The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.

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  Relationship, Wise, Spiritual

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• Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.

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  Knowledge, Taoism, Arguing

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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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• I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

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  Leadership, Humility, Men

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• The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.

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  Past, Baggage, Emotion

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• Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.

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  Goal, Moments, Positive Future

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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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