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Archivist Inspirational Quotes (886)

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A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot.
Laozi
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When you extend your goodwill in every direction, regardless of circumstances, you begin to see that we are all one.
Laozi
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Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.
Laozi
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Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick then you can move toward health.
Laozi
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Other people are joyous, like on the feast of the ox, like on the way up to the terrace in the spring. I alone am inert, giving no sign, like a newborn baby who has not learned to smile.
Laozi
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When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals.
Laozi
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He who gains a victory over other men is strong but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
Laozi
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The one who can dissolve her mind will suddenly discover the Tao at her feet.
Laozi
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Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.
Laozi
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Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.
Laozi
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Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day they are like vases with a narrow neck you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.
Jules Michelet
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Act non-action undertake no undertaking taste the tasteless.
Laozi
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Moderation means prevention. Prevention means achieving much virtue.
Laozi
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Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.
Laozi
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When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.
Laozi
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The Tao's principle is spontaneity.
Laozi
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We are all capable of much more than we think we are.
Laozi
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
Laozi
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Excellent conquerors do not engage.
Laozi
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Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.
Laozi
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A good speaker does not stutter.
Laozi
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When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
Laozi
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Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.
Laozi
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Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious.
Laozi
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