Laozi Quotes, Love Quotes, Inspirational Quotes

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

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A good door needs no lock, still it can't be opened.

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Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

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Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish.

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Every step is on the path.

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Practice non-action. Work without doing.

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If you want to be given everything, give everything up.

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Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao.

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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

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Being a model to the world, eternal virtue will never falter in you, and you return to the boundless.

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He who knows he has enough is rich.

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Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.

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He (the sage) wants all things to follow their own nature, but dares not act.

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The good leader carries water for his people.

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That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances.

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The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to yin and yang. Yin and yang give birth to all things... The complete whole is the complete whole. So also is any part the complete whole... But forget about understanding and harmonizing and making all things one. The universe is already a harmonious oneness; just realize it.

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He who treasures his body as much as the world can care for the world.

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Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling, and on the empty space within, its use depends. Thus, while the existence of things may be good, it is the non-existence in them that makes them serviceable.

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Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.

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If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?

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