Laozi Quotes - Page 28

• The Tao is told is not the Tao.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Tao

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• Stillness overcomes heat.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Overcoming, Heat

  Laozi, Philip J. Ivanhoe (2003). “The Daodejing of Laozi”, p.48, Hackett Publishing

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• Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

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  Dream, Opportunity, Worry

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• A man's excellence is like that of water; It benefits all things without striving; It takes to the low places shunned by men. Water is akin to Tao. . . . In all the earth nothing weaker than water, Yet in attacking the hard, nothing superior, Nothing so certain in wearing down strength: There is no way to resist it. Note then: The weak conquer the strong, The yielding outlast the aggressors.

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  Strength, Strong, Men

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• The sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade.

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  Clothes, Taoism, Sage

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• Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.

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  Honesty, Confusion, Taoism

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• That which is achieved the most, still has the whole of its future yet to be achieved.

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  Motivational, Achievement, Stills

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.45, Jain Publishing Company

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• Great accomplishment seems imperfect,
  Yet it does not outlive its usefulness.
  Great fullness seems empty,
  Yet it cannot be exhausted.

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  Accomplishment, Perfection, Doe

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Treat the large as the small and the few as the many.

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  Perspective, Treats

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• Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.

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  Dust, Earth, Unions

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

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• Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience.

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  Kindness, Work, Ideas

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• Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. Therefore having and not having arise together. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short contrast each other. High and low rest upon each other. Voice and sound harmonize each other. Front and back follow one another.

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  Difficult And Easy, Voice, Long

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

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• If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

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  Tree, Lightning, Concerned

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• People turn their eyes and ears to him (the sage), and the sage cares for them like his own children.

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  Children, Eye, Compassion

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• The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.

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  Taoism, Extravagance, Excess

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• Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune.

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  Roots, Giving, Birth

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• When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless, immutable Tao.

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  Creative, Taoism, Fluidity

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• Knowing the bright, but clinging to the dark, you become a model to the world.

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  Dark, Compassion, Knowing

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• That, which others compress - will widen up and open. That, which others weaken - will strengthen. That, which others destroy - will blossom. Whoever wished to take something from the other, will inevitably loose his own.

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• The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to Two. Two gives birth to Three. Three gives birth to all things. All things have their backs to the female and stand facing the male. When male and female combine, all things achieve harmony. 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, Two

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• The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.

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  Love, Jewels, Clothes

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

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• By steadily disciplining the animal nature, until it becomes one pointed, it is possible to establish conscious awareness of The Eternal.

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  Animal, Awareness, Conscious

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• People who have to fight for their living and are not afraid to die for it are higher persons than those who, stationed high, are too fat to dare to die.

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  Fighting, Economic Inequality, People

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• Praise of power leads to weakness; Love of things leads to loss; The wise one leads by filling people's hearts; He destroys illusion and disturbs those who believe they are wise; He does nothing yet everything happens.

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  Wise, Believe, Heart

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• If I have even just a little sense, I will walk on the main road and my only fear will be of straying from it. Keeping to the main road is easy, But people love to be sidetracked.

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  Spiritual, People, Justice

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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