Laozi Quotes - Page 47

• If you are untrustworthy, people will not trust you.

  Laozi

  Trust, People, Untrustworthy

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• The very highest is barely known.
  Then comes that which people know and love,
  Then that which is feared,
  Then that which is despised.
  Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

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  Wisdom, People, And Love

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it.

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  Leadership, Cooking, Kingdoms

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• Though (the Tao) is uncreated itself, it creates all things. Because it has no substance, it can enter into where there is no space. Exercising by returning to itself, winning victories by remaining gentle and yielding, it is softer than anything, and therefore overcomes everything hard.

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  Exercise, Winning, Space

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• I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness.

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  People, Tao, Virtue

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• In caring for others and serving heaven,
  There is nothing like using restraint.

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  Caring, Heaven, Tao

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight.

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  Knowing, Way, Tao

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.

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  Strong, Inspiration, Practice

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• The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.

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  Leadership, Wise, Motivation

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• The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.

  Laozi

  Evil, Distortion, Method

  Colin Bradshaw-Jones, Laozi, Lao Tzu (2006). “The Tao Te Ching, Eighty-one Maxims from the Father of Taoism”, p.82, Lulu.com

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• If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.

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  Practice, Way, Action

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• Requite injury with kindness.

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  Kindness, Injury

  Laozi, Jingxiong Wu (2003). “Tao Teh Ching”, Shambhala Publications

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• Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.

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  Water, Doe, Benefits

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• Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is known and feared; the worst government is hated.

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  Government, People, Next

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• Act non-action; undertake no undertaking; taste the tasteless.

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  Taste, Action, Undertakings

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

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• Conclusions are ignorance arrested on the path to less ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Path, Conclusion

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• Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.

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  Home, Sea, Rivers

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Great indeed is the sublimity of the creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

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  Creativity, Creative, Heaven

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• Give up learning, and put an end to your troubles.

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  Giving Up, Teaching, Trouble

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

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• Man, when living, is soft and tender; when dead, he is hard and tough. All animals and plants when living are tender and delicate; when dead they become withered and dry. Therefore it is said: the hard and tough are parts of death; the soft and tender are parts of life.

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  Nature, Men, Animal

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• A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they are withered and dry. Therefore, the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death, and the gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

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  Motivational, Fitness, Health

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one's feet.

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  Inspirational, Journey, Feet

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• Yield and overcome; Bend and be straight; Empty and be full; Wear out and be new; Have little and gain; Have much and be confused. ...The ancients say, "Yield and overcome." Is that an empty saying? Be really whole, And all things will come to you.

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  Confused, Yield, Confusion

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

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• Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish.

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  Government, States, Fishes

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.28, Chinese University Press

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• Carrying body and soul and embracing the one, Can you avoid separation?

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  Soul, Unity, Body

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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