Laozi Quotes
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The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.
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Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight
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If you wish to become a divine immortal angel, then restore the angelic qualities of your being through virtue and service. This is the only way to gain the attention of the immortals... These angelic teachers cannot be sought out; it is they who seek out the student. When you succeed in connecting your energy with the divine realm through high awareness and the practice of undiscriminating virtue, the transmission of the ultimate subtle truths will follow.
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Do not attempt to conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance.
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Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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There is no greater crime than desire.
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Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness.
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You will understand a great truth when you get to realize that what you do to others, you are doing to yourself.
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By following this simple path, you become extraordinary, unfathomable, a being of profound cosmic subtlety. You outlive time and space by realizing the subtle truth of the universe.
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The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.
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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.
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Those who praise victory relish manslaughter. Those who relish manslaughter cannot reach their goals in the world.
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The soft and weak can overcome the hard and strong.
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When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life and dry in brittle in death So the soft and supple are the companion of life While the stiff and unyielding are the companions of death An army that cannot yield will be defeated A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind Thus by Nature's own decree the hard and strong are defeated while the soft and gentle are triumphant
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The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This is why it is so similar to the Way.
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What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out
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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.
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The one who does not stray away from her/his nature will live long.
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To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.
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Whoever is capable of knowing when they have had enough will always be satisfied.
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The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.
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Complete your task. Seek no reward. Make no claims. Without faltering fully choose to do what you must do.
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When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.
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It is fitting for a great nation to yield.
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Stillness overcomes heat.
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He who knows he has enough is rich.
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To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths.
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Quarrel with a friend - and you are both wrong.
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When the sage stands above people, they are not oppressed. When he leads people, they are not obstructed. The world will exalt him and not grow tired of him.
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