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Archivist Inspirational Quotes (886)

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Those who do not trust enough should not be trusted.
Laozi
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Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.
Laozi
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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
Gottfried Leibniz
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Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.
Jules Michelet
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The noble must make humility his root.
Laozi
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The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.
Laozi
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My own words are not the medicine, but a prescription not the destination, but a map to help you reach it. When you get there, quiet your mind and close your mouth. Don't analyze the Tao. Strive instead to live it: silently, undividedly, with your whole harmonious being.
Laozi
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Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord.
Laozi
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Seeing the small is called Clarity. Keeping flexible is called Strength. Using the shining Radiance, You enter the Light, Where no harm can come to you. This is called Enlightenment.
Laozi
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When the highest type of people hear Tao (Truth), they diligently practice it. When the average type of people hear Tao, they half believe in it. When the lowest type of people hear Tao, they laugh at it. If they did not laugh, it would not be Tao.
Laozi
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All action begins in rest... This is the ultimate truth.
Laozi
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Therefore, I have attacted [the problem of the catenary] which I had hitherto not attempted, and with my key [the differential calculus] happily opened its secret. Acta eruditorum
Gottfried Leibniz
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People who have to fight for their living and are not afraid to die for it are higher persons than those who, stationed high, are too fat to dare to die.
Laozi
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Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult make something big by starting with it when small.
Laozi
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Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.
Laozi
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Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Center your country in the Tao and evil will have no power. Not that it isn't there, but you'll be able to step out of its way. Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.
Laozi
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As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward the bottom is bent up. It adjusts excess and deficiency so that there is perfect balance.
Laozi
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When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless, immutable Tao.
Laozi
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If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn!
Laozi
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Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.
Laozi
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Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Laozi
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(The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things.
Laozi
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The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
Laozi
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Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.
Laozi
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