Tao Wisdom Quotes

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  Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

  Laozi

  Life, Change, Spiritual

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• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

  Laozi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Learning, Tao Te Ching

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• Great acts are made up of small deeds.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Procrastination, Bad Day

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• 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.

  Laozi

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• The farther you go, the less you know.

  Laozi

  Knows, Tao Te Ching Leadership

  Laozi, Herrymon Maurer (1985). “Tao , the way of the ways”, Schocken

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• If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Tao Ching

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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.

  Laozi

  Life, Spiritual, Self Esteem

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• If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Jobs, Work

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• He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Doe, Tiptoes

  Laozi (1997). “Tao Te Ching”, p.25, Wordsworth Editions

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• My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice. Yet your intellect will never grasp them, and if you try to practice them, you'll fail. My teachings are older than the world. How can you grasp their meaning? If you want to know me, look inside your heart.

  Laozi

  Teaching, Heart, Practice

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• Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Trying, Ruins

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• A great nation is like a great man:When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.Having realized it, he admits it.Having admitted it, he corrects it.He considers those who point out his faultsas his most benevolent teachers.He thinks of his enemyas the shadow that he himself casts.

  Laozi

  Teacher, Mistake, Men

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• To attain knowledge, add things every day To attain wisdom, remove things every day

  Laozi

  Motivational, Spiritual, Knowledge

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• Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Music

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• He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

  Laozi

  Being Strong, Perseverance, Stay Strong

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

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• Observe how endings become beginnings.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Tao Ching, Tao

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

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Knives, Simplicity

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• Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

  Laozi

  Evil, Giving, Tao Te Ching

  Laozi (2008). “Daodejing: A Literal-critical Translation”, University Press of Amer

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• The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Flames

  "Tao Te Ching". 4th century BC.

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• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Change, Spiritual

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• He who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

  Laozi

  Trust, Taoism, Doe

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

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