Laozi Quotes - Page 39

• If a great country yields to a small country, it will conquer the small country. If a small country yields to a great country, it will be conquered by the great country.

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  Country, Yield, Taoism

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• In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.

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  Water, Return, Clarity

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• We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.

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  Moving, Space, House

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• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.

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  Simple, Thinking, Dwelling

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• heaven is eternal, earth everlasting. they endure this way because they do not live for themselves. in the same way, the wise person puts himself last, and thereby finds himself first, holds himself outside, and thereby remains at the center, abandons himself, and is thereby fulfilled.

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  Wise, Heaven, Earth

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• Between yea and nay, how much difference is there?

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  Differences

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.29, Chinese University Press

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• The Way is hidden and nameless. Still only the Way nourishes and completes.

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  Taoism, Way, Nameless

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• Without stepping out the door, you can know the world.

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  Doors, Taoism, World

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• When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.

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  Government, People, Taoism

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• When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power or virtue. It is something within a person, and it is enhanced by following the Tao, or 'that from which nothing can deviate'.

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  Names, Taoism, Doe

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• The light of the Way seems dim.

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  Light, Taoism, Way

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• To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!

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  Leadership, Hate, People

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• Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound union.

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  Light, Doors, Dust

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• In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.

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  People, Giving, Ignorant

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• The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.

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  Taoism, Doe, Sage

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• Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!

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  Wise, Philosophy, People

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• Yielding is the manner of the Way.

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  Taoism, Way

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• The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.

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  Leadership, Teacher, Taken

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• The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.

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  Order, Law, Violence

  Laozi, Henri Borel, Kang-hu Kiang (1939). “Laotzu's Tao and wu-wei: A new translation by Bhikshu Wai-tao and Dwight Goddard. Interpretive essays by Henri Borel. Outline of Taoist philosophy and religion by Dr. Kiang Kang-hu”

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• Therefore: In dwelling, choose modest quarters, in thinking, value stillness, in dealing with others, be kind, in choosing words, be sincere, in leading, be just, in working, be competent, in acting, choose the correct timing. Follow these words and there will be no error.

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  Thinking, Errors, Dwelling

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• What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.

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  Inspirational, Generations, Wells

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• The wise man knows he doesn't know.

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  Wise, Men, Knows

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• Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

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  Inspirational, Knives, Simplicity

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• Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the various creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats others as straw dogs.

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  Dog, Heaven, Sage

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• He who knows he has enough is rich.

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  Money, Environmental, Rich

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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