Laozi Quotes - Page 7

• Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.

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  Inspirational, Simple, Small Problems

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• Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way.

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  Judging, Mind, Taoism

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• People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.

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  Knowledge, People, Taoism

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• If you attach yourself to gross energies - loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another - then you will lead a series of heavy, attached lives. This can go on for a very long and tedious time.

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  Life, Hate, Long

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

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• For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.

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  Perseverance, Intelligent, Men

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• The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not dazzle.

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  Cutting, Taoism, Doe

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• Accept disgrace willingly... Accept being unimportant... Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.

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  Love, Self, World

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

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  Life, Wise, Learning

  Laozi, Lao-Tzu, Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo (2007). “Tao Te Ching”, p.81, Shambhala Publications

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• Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

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  Change, Happiness, Appreciation

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• A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

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  Leadership, People, Good Man

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• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

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  Powerful, Heart, Understanding

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• A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

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  Artist, Intuition, Want

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• Allow your softer, more intuitive, and less dominating feminine qualities to rise to the fore, so that you're surrendering rather than dominating, receiving rather than broadcasting, loving rather than fighting.

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  Fighting, Taoism, Quality

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• The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.

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  Teaching, Taoism, World

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• Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

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  Self, Giving, Transformation

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

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• Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.

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  Ignorance, Knows

  Laozi, Sepharial (1904). “The Book of the Simple Way of Laotze: A New Translation from the Text of the Tao-teh-king”

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• Act without expectation.

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  Expectations, Taoism

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• Wise men hear and see as little children do.

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  Wise, Children, Men

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• As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever.

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  Dream, Moving, Long

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• Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.

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  Patience, Knowledge, Water

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• To understand the limitation of things, desire them.

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  Tao Te Ching, Desire, Tao Ching

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• Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

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  Difficult And Easy, Effectiveness, Risk

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• Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.

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  Inspirational, Taoism, Needs

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• Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.

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  Rivers, Taoism, Mountain

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