Taoism Quotes - Page 14

• The great Way is very straight, but people prefer to deviate.

  Laozi

  People, Way, Deviate

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• The great image lacks shape.

  Laozi

  Shapes

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• Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.

  Laozi

  Loss, Gains, Losing

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• The most straight seems curved.

  Laozi

  Seems

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• The most eloquent seems to stutter.

  Laozi

  Eloquent, Seems

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• Make the small big and the few many.

  Laozi

  Bigs

  Laozi, Chichung Huang (2003). “Tao te ching: a literal translation with an introduction, notes, and commentary”, Asian Humanities Pr

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• Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful.

  Laozi

  Wheels, Thirty, Holes

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• Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.

  Laozi

  Space, Clay, Mold

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• Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.

  Laozi

  Cutting, Doors, House

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• The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.

  Laozi

  Use, Values

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• Can you comprehend everything in the four directions and still do nothing?

  Laozi

  Four, Stills

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• The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting.

  Laozi

  Acting, Sage, Perceive

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• Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world.

  Laozi

  Country, War, Justice

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• I do not act, and people become reformed by themselves.

  Laozi

  People

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• Although he travels all day, the sage never loses sight of his luggage carts.

  Laozi

  Sight, Sage, Carts

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• Meet the difficult while it is easy.

  Laozi

  Easy, Difficult

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• Meet the big while it is small.

  Laozi

  Bigs

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• The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning.

  Laozi

  World, Easy, Difficult

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• The brittle is easy to shatter.

  Laozi

  Easy

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• The small is easy to scatter.

  Laozi

  Easy

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• What has not yet emerged is easy to prevent.

  Laozi

  Easy

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• Those who stand on their toes are not steady.

  Laozi

  Toes, Steady

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• Those who take long steps cannot keep the pace.

  Laozi

  Long, Pace, Steps

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• The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.

  Laozi

  Extravagance, Excess, Sage

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• Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound union.

  Laozi

  Light, Doors, Dust

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