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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• Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.

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  Happiness, Taoism, Seeking Happiness

  Laozi (1919). “Laotzu's Tao and Wu Wei”

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• The best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves the communal good. The best leader follows the will of the people. All of the embody the virtue of non-competition. Not that they don't love to compete, but they do it in the spirit of play. In this they are like children and in harmony with the Tao.

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  Children, Athlete, Play

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• Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.

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  Perfection, Taoism, Imperfect

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

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  Believe, Needs, Convince

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• Every step is on the path.

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  Taoism, Path, Steps

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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 power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

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  Powerful, Heart, Understanding

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• Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love.

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  Thinking, Giving, Taoism

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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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• Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

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  Meditation, Feel Good, Taoism

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• When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.

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  Morality, Goodness, Lost

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• The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

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• The most straight seems curved.

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  Taoism, Seems

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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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• 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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• Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

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  Strong, Power, Water

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• Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.

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  Spiritual, Self, Oneness

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• The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.

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  Knowledge, Taoism, Sage

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• A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.

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  Wind, Tree, Cracks

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• In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.

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  Order, Negative, Negative Influence

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