Laozi Quotes, Mother Quotes, Moving Quotes

There is something obscure which is complete before heaven and earth arose; tranquil, quiet, standing alone without change, moving without peril. It could be the mother of everything. Not knowing its name, I call it Tao.

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When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. Being and non-being create each other. Difficult and easy support each other. Long and short define each other. High and low depend on each other. Before and after follow each other. Therefore the Master acts without doing anything and teaches without saying anything. Things arise and she lets them come; things disappear and she lets them go. She has but doesn't possess, acts but doesn't expect. When her work is done, she forgets it. That is why it lasts forever.

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Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is close to the Way.

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Those who are one with deprivation are deprived of deprivation.

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Therefore: In dwelling, choose modest quarters, in thinking, value stillness, in dealing with others, be kind, in choosing words, be sincere, in leading, be just, in working, be competent, in acting, choose the correct timing. Follow these words and there will be no error.

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Watch your thoughts, they become words.

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What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.

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The sage is one with the world, and lives in harmony with it.

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Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath.

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Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.

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Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.

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Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.

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There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

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[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.

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Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.

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Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

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A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

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Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the various creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats others as straw dogs.

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All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

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If you attach yourself to gross energies - loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another - then you will lead a series of heavy, attached lives. This can go on for a very long and tedious time.

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