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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• Love the whole world as if it were your self; then you will truly care for all things.

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  Love, Self, Taoism

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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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• 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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• To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

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  Book, Ignorance, Knowledge

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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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• 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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• New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

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  Cancer, New Beginnings, Hard Times

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• Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.

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  Perfection, Taoism, Imperfect

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• Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor's son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief and spoke like a thief. But the man found his ax while digging in the valley, and the next time he saw his neighbor's son, the boy walked, looked and spoke like any other child.

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  Children, Son, Boys

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

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  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

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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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• Stop thinking, and end your problems.

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  Thinking, Tao Te Ching, Taoism

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• At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

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  Life, Spiritual, Self Esteem

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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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• If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.

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  Wise, Men, Thinking

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

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  Add

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