Laozi Quotes - Page 8

• Excellent warriors are not violent.

  Laozi

  Warrior, Taoism, Excellent

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• Abandon knowledge and your worries are over.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Worry, Taoism

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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.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Desire, Wanting More

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• Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Death

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• People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life And Love, Failure

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• Do you think that you can clear your mind by sitting constantly in silent meditation? This makes your mind narrow, not clear. Integral awareness is fluid and adaptable, present in all places and at all times. That is true meditation. ... The Tao is clear and simple, and it doesn't avoid the world.

  Laozi

  Simple, Thinking, Meditation

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

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• The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war.

  Laozi

  Clever, Powerful, War

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• Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Knowledge, Taoism

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• Empty your mind of all thoughts.

  Laozi

  Loss, Mind, Empty

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• If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn!

  Laozi

  Show Me, Let Me, Shows

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• Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not brag, and you will have merit. Do not be prideful, and your work will endure.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Looks, Merit

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• He who is attached to things will suffer much.

  Laozi

  Suffering, Tao Te Ching Leadership

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Health is the greatest possession.

  Laozi

  Health, Possession

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• The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.

  Laozi

  Wise, Men, Motivational Sales

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• There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

  Laozi

  Desire, Sin, Enough

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• I observe myself and I come to know others.

  Laozi

  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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• To know and not to do is not yet to know.

  Laozi

  Knows

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• Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.

  Laozi

  Kindness, Business, Design

  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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• Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love.

  Laozi

  Thinking, Giving, Taoism

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• The best leaders are those their people hardly know exist.
  The next best is a leader who is loved and praised.
  Next comes the one who is feared.
  The worst one is the leader that is despised ...
  The best leaders value their words, and use them sparingly.
  When they have accomplished their task,
  the people say, "Amazing!
  We did it, all by ourselves!

  Laozi

  People, Leader, Tao Te Ching

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• Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone.

  Laozi

  Philosophy, Doe, Harmony

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• Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Confidence, Self Esteem

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• Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Taoism, Trying

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• Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and so on. Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.

  Laozi

  Life, Attachment, Self

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

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• Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is still small. Difficult undertakings have always started with what easy. Great undertakings always started with what is small. Therefore the sage never strives for the great,And thereby the great is achieved.

  Laozi

  Character, Sage, Easy

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