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Laozi Inspirational Quotes (749)

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Every step is on the path.
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The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao.
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Be content with an ordinary life.
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We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.
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He who walks on tip-toe does not walk on solid ground.
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. . . the integral being is attached to nothing and can relate to everyone with an unstructured attitude. Because of this, her very existence benefits all things.
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. . . integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness, and no mental concepts or attitudes are present to dim that light.
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Lightly given promises must meet with little trust.
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The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.
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The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to yin and yang. Yin and yang give birth to all things... The complete whole is the complete whole. So also is any part the complete whole... But forget about understanding and harmonizing and making all things one. The universe is already a harmonious oneness just realize it.
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Heaven is eternal and Earth everlasting. They can be eternal and everlasting because they do not exist for themselves, And for this reason can exist forever.
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Displaying riches and titles with pride brings about one's downfall.
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Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed.
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If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away cast away his wickedness.
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Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.
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The Way is the source of all things, good people's treasure and bad people's refuge.
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The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.
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Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
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Having reached a high level of realization (or having accomplished anything in life), don't get excited or puffed up with pride but remain calm, humble, and in perfect equanimity if you want to continue in this deep state of consciousness.
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The Tao is like a well used but never used up.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
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If a great country yields to a small country, it will conquer the small country. If a small country yields to a great country, it will be conquered by the great country.
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Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
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The sturdiest virtue seems fragile.
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