Laozi Quotes - Page 11

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

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  Morality, Goodness, Lost

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• Can you comprehend everything in the four directions and still do nothing?

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  Taoism, Four, Stills

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• If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve. Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.

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  Cutting, Hands, Dying

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• Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!

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  Thinking, Differences, Yes And No

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• Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things?

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  Mind, Taoism, Steps

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• If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?

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  People, Taoism, Dying

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• Filling life exceedingly is called ominous.

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  Taoism, Filling, Ominous

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• The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.

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  Letting Go, World, Courses

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

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  Inspirational, Change, Success

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• Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.

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  Hate, Men, Solitude

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• Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

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  Relationship, Marriage, Couple

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• Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.

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  Simple, Self, Simplicity

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

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Philosophy

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• Solve it before it happens. Order it before chaos emerges.

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  Order, Taoism, Chaos

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• The usefulness of the pot lies in its emptiness.

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  Lying, Emptiness, Pot

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• Open yourself to the truth, then trust in your natural responses, and everything will fall into place.

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  Fall, Natural, Fall Into Place

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• How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.

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  Simple, Simplicity, Doe

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• Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.

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  Peace, Heart, Mind

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• There is a time to go ahead and a time to stay behind. There is a time to breathe easy and time to breathe hard. There is a time to be vigorous and a time to be gentle. There is a time to gather and a time to release. Can you see things as they are And let them be all on their own?

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  Motivation, Feeling Down, Feelings

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• The best way to manage anything is by making use of its own nature.

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  Use, Way, Best Way

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.47, Jain Publishing Company

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• The superior leader keeps informed about everything but interferes hardly at all.

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  Leader, Interfere, Superiors

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• Learn to lead in a nourishing manner.
  Learn to lead without being possessive.
  Learn to be helpful without taking the credit.
  Learn to lead without coercion.

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  Volunteer, Credit, Coercion

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• As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

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• Not-knowing is true knowledge.
  Presuming to know is a disease.
  First realize that you are sick;
  then you can move toward health.

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  Inspirational, Moving, Knowing

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

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• The Master keeps her mind always at one with the Tao; that is what gives her her radiance. The Tao is ungraspable. How can her mind be at one with it? Because she doesn't cling to ideas. The Tao is dark and unfathomable. How can it make her radiant? Because she lets it. Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not. How do I know this is true? I look inside myself and see.

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  Time, Dark, Ideas

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