Laozi Quotes - Page 12

• Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.

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  Inspirational, Love You, Self

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• Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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  Inspirational, Life, Music

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• Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.

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  Wish, Bows, Moderation

  Laozi (1999). “Laozi”

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• Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.

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  Kindness, Compassion, Law

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• ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.

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  Gratitude, Humility, Courtesy

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• There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born. It is serene. Empty. Solitary. Unchanging. Infinite. Eternally present. It is the mother of the universe. For lack of a better name, I call it the Tao. It flows through all things, inside and outside, and returns to the origin of all things. The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows the earth. Earth follows the universe. The universe follows the Tao. The Tao follows only itself.

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  Mother, Men, Names

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• If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren't led by the senses, your heart will find peace.

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  Peace, Heart, Judging

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• Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.

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  Knowledge, Taoism, Illness

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• The soft and weak can overcome the hard and strong.

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  Strong, Taoism, Overcoming

  "Tao Tê Ching".

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• He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.

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  Nature, Lessons, Patient

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.32, Jain Publishing Company

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• What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening.

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  Taoism, Substance, Opening

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• Every being in the universe is an expression of the Tao. It springs into existence, unconscious, perfect, free, takes on a physical body, lets circumstances complete it. That is why every being spontaneously honors the Tao. The Tao gives birth to all beings, nourishes them, maintains them, cares for them, comforts them, protects them, takes them back to itself, creating without possessing, acting without expecting, guiding without interfering. That is why love of the Tao is in the very nature of things.

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  Love, Spring, Expression

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• Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the direst necessityand, if compelled, will use themonly with the utmost restraint.Peace is his highest value.If the peace has been shattered,how can he be content?His enemies are not demons,but human beings like himself.He doesn't wish them personal harm.Nor does he rejoice in victory.How could he rejoice in victoryand delight in the slaughter of men?He enters a battle gravely,with sorrow and with great compassion,as if he were attending a funeral

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  Peace, Compassion, Men

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• Hear no evil. See no evil. Speak no evil.

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  Speak No Evil, Feel Good, Party Hard

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• The eternal void is filled with infinite possibilities

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  Void, Infinite, Possibility

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• To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.

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  Ignorance, Knowledge, Sick

  Laozi, Jingxiong Wu (1997). “Dao teh jing”

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• When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

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  People, Tao Te Ching, Book Of Tao

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• Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.

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  Doe, Enough, Knows

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• Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

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  Inspirational, Beautiful, Encouraging

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• Because he (the Sage) opposes no one, no one in the world can oppose him.

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  Taoism, Sage, World

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• The Great Vessel takes long to complete.

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  Long, Taoism, Vessel

  "Lao-tzu: Te-tao ching : a new translation based on the recently discovered Ma-wang-tui texts".

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• . . . Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.

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  Wisdom, Intelligence

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• The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.

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  Strong, Taoism, Overcoming

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• Take care with the end as you do with the beginning

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  Inspirational, Care, Take Care

  Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching: A New Translation”

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• Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.

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  Kindness, Thinking, Compassion

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