Taoism Quotes - Page 17

• Behave simply and hold on to purity.

  Laozi

  Purity, Behave

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• Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.

  Laozi

  Writing, People, Rope

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• Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness.

  Laozi

  Emptiness, Steadfast, Stillness

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• Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one's fate. Returning to one's fate is eternal.

  Laozi

  Fate, Source, Eternal

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• Stillness is the ruler of haste.

  Laozi

  Haste, Rulers, Stillness

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• Stillness is easy to maintain.

  Laozi

  Easy, Stillness

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• A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.

  Laozi

  Multitudes, Tiresome

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• Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves.

  Laozi

  People, Tasks, Quiet

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• To be of few words is natural.

  Laozi

  Few Words, Natural

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• Peace and quiet govern the world.

  Laozi

  World, Quiet, Peace And Quiet

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• Where there is no conflict, there is no fault.

  Laozi

  Faults, Conflict

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• Those who are one with deprivation are deprived of deprivation.

  Laozi

  Deprivation, Deprived

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• The sage is one with the world, and lives in harmony with it.

  Laozi

  Sage, World, Harmony

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• Harmony is called the eternal. Knowing the eternal is called clarity.

  Laozi

  Knowing, Clarity, Harmony

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• Praise and disgrace cause fear.

  Laozi

  Causes, Praise, Disgrace

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• Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.

  Laozi

  Weakness, Causes, Losing

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• Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby?

  Laozi

  Baby, Newborn, Breaths

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• The one who is filled by virtue is like a newborn baby.

  Laozi

  Baby, Newborn, Virtue

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• When family ties are disturbed, devoted children arise.

  Laozi

  Children, Ties, Arise

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• Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.

  Laozi

  Ties, People, Return

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• Yielding, like ice about to melt.

  Laozi

  Ice, Tao Ching, Tao Te Ching Leadership

  Laozi, Burton Watson, Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo (1993). “Dao de Jing”, p.15, Hackett Publishing

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• The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the fool, the way of someone who doesn't need to be noticed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Essence, Needs

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• Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.

  Laozi

  Army, Grows

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• Battles are followed by years of famine.

  Laozi

  Years, Battle, Famine

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• Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them.

  Laozi

  Tools, Weapons, Way

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