Laozi Quotes - Page 25

• If people do not revere the Law of Nature It will adversely affect them. If they accept It with knowledge and reverence, It will accommodate them with balance and harmony.

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  Law, Balance And Harmony, People

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• Be the chief but never the lord.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will never desert him. He returns to the state of a little child.

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  Strong, Children, Humility

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• Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Thought Provoking

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.117, Chinese University Press

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• That so few understand me is why I am treasured.

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  Knowledge, Taoism, Understand Me

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• To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.

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  Mean, Heaven, Vision

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• The sage is one with the world, and lives in harmony with it.

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  Taoism, Sage, World

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• Things are not worth attending to, yet they have to be attended to.

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  Attending

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• What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.

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  Kings, People, Taoism

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• By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.

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  Love, Kindness, Men

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• Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.

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  Letting Go, Attitude, Views

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

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• The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.

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  Simple, Problem, Affair

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• Lessen selfishness and restrain desires.

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  Taoism, Desire, Selfishness

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• The best fighter is never angry.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Yoga

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• The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

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  Inspirational, People, Too Much

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.109, Chinese University Press

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• Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.

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  Compassion, Knowing, Honor

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• Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.

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  Moving, Rivers, Mountain

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• The great image lacks shape.

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  Taoism, Shapes

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• If I have just an ounce of sense, I follow the great Way, and fear only to stray from it.

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  Taoism, Way, Ifs

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• First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.

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  Community, Mindfulness, World

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• The most fundamental seems fickle.

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  Taoism, Fickle, Fundamentals

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• Those who show off do not shine.

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  Shining, Taoism, Shows

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• The most eloquent seems to stutter.

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  Taoism, Eloquent, Seems

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• Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one's fate. Returning to one's fate is eternal.

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  Fate, Taoism, Source

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• Those who know when to halt are unharmed.

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  Taoism, Halt, Knows

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