Laozi Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Heart Quotes

The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.

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The Tao principle is what happens of itself.

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Those who know when it is enough will not perish.

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Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing. To be all-embracing leads to righteousness, which is majestic.

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The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil. The Master doesn't take sides; she welcomes both saints and sinners. The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand. Hold on to the center.

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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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Those who have the courage to dare will perish. Those who have the courage not to dare will live.

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All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.

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The most straight seems curved.

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The sage honors his part of the settlement, but does not exact his due from others.

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Love the whole world as if it were your self; then you will truly care for all things.

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Although there are weapons for tens and hundreds of soldiers, they will not be used.

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Tao loves and nourishes all things, but does not dominate it over them.

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Cultivate virtue in yourself, and it will be true.

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The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies.

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Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.

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If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve. He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire, and creates confusion in those who think that they know. Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place.

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When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

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The sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade.

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What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.

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