Laozi Quotes - Page 10

• Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.

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  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

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• What is and what is not create each other.

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  Taoism

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• The words of truth are always paradoxical. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

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  Mind, Surrender, Paradoxical

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• Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.

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  Love, Giving Up, People

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• Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.

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  Sight, Doors, Long

  Laozi (1905). “The Simple Way”

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• Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding.

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  Light, Darkness Within, Imagination

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• If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner peace.

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  Inner Peace, Taoism, Ifs

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

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• Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

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  Love, Wisdom, Passion

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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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• All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power. If you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them. If you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them. The Master is above the people, and no one feels oppressed. She goes ahead of the people, and no one feels manipulated. The whole world is grateful to her. Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her.

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  Leadership, Grateful, Humility

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• All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.

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  Taoism, World, Born

  "Daodejing: A Literal-critical Translation".

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• The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

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  Clever, Knowledge, People

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• Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.

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  Spiritual, Oneness, Detours

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

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• The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.

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  Law, Taoism, Criminals

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• Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

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  Tao Te Ching, Trying, Ruins

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• I do not act, and people become reformed by themselves.

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  People, Taoism

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• He who steals a hook shall be hanged; while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince.

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  Hook, Stealing, States

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• The superior student listens to the Way and follows it closely. The average student listens to the Way and follows some and some not. The lesser student listens to the Way and laughs out loud. If there were no laughter it would not be the Way.

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  Laughter, Knowledge, Average

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• Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.

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  Compassion, People, Taoism

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• Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not.

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  Spiritual, Drawing, Lines

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

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• The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more; having given all he has to others, he is richer still.

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  Helping Others, Generosity, Doe

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• Be who you are, and go the whole way.

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  Be Who You Are, Way, Whole

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• Empty yourself of everything.
  Let the mind become still.
  The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return.
  They grow and flourish and then return to the source.
  Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.

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  Nature, Fall, Animal

  Laozi, Gia-fu Feng, Jane English (1972). “Tao te ching”, Random House Inc

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• Look, and it can't be seen.
  Listen, and it can't be heard.
  Reach, and it can't be grasped.
  
  Above, it isn't bright.
  Below, it isn't dark.
  Seamless, unnamable,
  it returns to the realm of nothing.
  Form that includes all forms,
  image without an image,
  subtle, beyond all conception.
  
  Approach it and there is no beginning;
  follow it and there is no end.
  You can't know it, but you can be it,
  at ease in your own life.
  Just realize where you come from:
  this is the essence of wisdom.

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  Life, Dark, Essence

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• So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.

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  Strength, Breathing, Balance

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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