Taoism Quotes - Page 10

• When people do not dread authorities, then a greater dread descends.

  Laozi

  People, Authority, Dread

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• People are hard to govern. The rulers interfere with too much. That is why people are hard to govern.

  Laozi

  People, Too Much, Rulers

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• The purest white seems stained.

  Laozi

  White, Seems

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• Filling life exceedingly is called ominous.

  Laozi

  Filling, Ominous

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• There is one appointed supreme executioner. Truly, trying to take the place of the supreme executioner is like trying to carve wood like a master carpenter. Of those who try to carve wood like a master carpenter, there are few who do not injure their hands.

  Laozi

  Hands, Trying, Woods

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• People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.

  Laozi

  People, Too Much

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• People are born soft and weak. They die hard and stiff.

  Laozi

  People, Weak, Born

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• All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.

  Laozi

  Tree, Dry, Grass

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• The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.

  Laozi

  Weak, Companion, Hard

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• Let people take death seriously, and not travel far.

  Laozi

  People

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• Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Knowing, Honor

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• The high must make the low its base.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Lows

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• The highest virtue seems as low as a valley.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Valleys, Virtue

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• If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow them from behind.

  Laozi

  Compassion, People, Sage

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• The highest benevolence acts without purpose.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Purpose, Benevolence

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• The sage has no concern for himself, but makes the concerns of others his own.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Sage, Concern

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• People turn their eyes and ears to him (the sage), and the sage cares for them like his own children.

  Laozi

  Children, Eye, Compassion

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• See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.

  Laozi

  Country, Compassion, World

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• Return animosity with virtue.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Return, Virtue

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• I have three treasures that I cherish. The first is compassion. The second is moderation. The third is not claiming to be first in the world.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Three, World

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• By compassion one can be brave.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Brave, Be Brave

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• The sage honors his part of the settlement, but does not exact his due from others.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Honor, Doe

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• Lessen selfishness and restrain desires.

  Laozi

  Desire, Selfishness

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• Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Sea, Wave

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• Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

  Laozi

  Desire, World, Settling

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