Laozi Quotes - Page 3

• Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.

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  Serenity, Mind, Taoism

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• If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.

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  Spiritual, Helping Others, Looks

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• Stop leaving and you will arrive, Stop searching and you will see, Stop running away and you will be found.

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  Inspirational, Running, Spiritual

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• The greatest revelation is stillness.

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  Revelations, Stillness

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• The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.

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  Doing Nothing, Masters, Accomplish

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• Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.

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  Perfection, Taoism, Imperfect

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• The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.

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  Teacher, People, Needs

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• Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight

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  Light, Sight, Over You

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• See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things

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  Badass, Greatness, Simplicity

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve

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  Inspirational, Change, Spiritual

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• Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . . If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao, don't get caught up in spiritual superficialities.

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  Spiritual, Prayer, Breathing

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

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• If there is to be peace in the world,
  There must be peace in the nations.
  If there is to be peace in the nations,
  There must be peace in the cities.
  If there is to be peace in the cities,
  There must be peace between neighbors.
  If there is to be peace between neighbors,
  There must be peace in the home.
  If there is to be peace in the home,
  There must be peace in the heart.

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  Peace, Home, Heart

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• Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.

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  Knowledge, Knowing, Taoism

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• Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.

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  Wise, Clever, Knowledge

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• Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.

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  Art, Martial Arts

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• At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

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  Life, Spiritual, Self Esteem

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• Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.

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  Tao Te Ching, Desire, Mystery

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• If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

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  Tao Te Ching, Past Present Future, Anxiety Depression

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• Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.

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  Happiness, Pain, Ego

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

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• There is no illusion great than fear.

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  Fear, Illusion

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• Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.

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  Leadership, Panic, Great Leader

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• Yielding is the way of the Tao.

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  Acceptance, Taoism, Way

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• To have little is to possess.

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  Life, Littles

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• There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.

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  Inspirational, Desire, Wanting More

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• The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

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