Laozi Quotes, Giving Quotes, Phrases Quotes

When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.

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The Tao which you know is not the eternal Tao

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The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

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The Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao.

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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.

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The one who rules like the mother lasts long.

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Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

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To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only those who know when they are deluded can free themselves from such delusion. The intelligent people are not deluded, because they know and accept their ignorance as ignorance, and thereby have genuine knowledge.

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The wise cares about everyone, and he becomes an example to all.

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Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.

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Life and death are one thread.

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To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely on one's own ability, To lead them, but not to master them - This is called profound and secret virtue.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

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A brave and passionate man will kill or be killed. A brave and calm man will always preserve life. Of these two which is good and which is harmful?

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There is a big misunderstanding about the idea of naturalness. Most people who come to us believing in some freedom or naturalness, but their understanding is what we call [heretical naturalness] ... a kind of "let-alone policy" or sloppiness... For a plant or stone to be natural is no problem. But for us there is some problem, indeed a big problem. To be natural is something we must work on.

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Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.

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Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

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The Way to Heaven has no favorites. It is always with the good man.

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Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

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There is a time to go ahead and a time to stay behind. There is a time to breathe easy and time to breathe hard. There is a time to be vigorous and a time to be gentle. There is a time to gather and a time to release. Can you see things as they are And let them be all on their own?

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