Laozi Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Taoism Quotes

Allow your softer, more intuitive, and less dominating feminine qualities to rise to the fore, so that you're surrendering rather than dominating, receiving rather than broadcasting, loving rather than fighting.

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The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.

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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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If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.

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Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless.

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Kind words elicit trust. Kind thoughts create depth. Kind deeds bring love.

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A winner listens, a loser just waits until it is their turn to talk.

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Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.

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A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.

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Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.

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Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there is no self and other, and hence no one to be raised; no heaven and hell, and hence no destination.

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Of the second-rate leaders people speak respectfully saying, "He has done this, he has done that." Of the first-rate leaders, they do not say this. They say, "We have done it all ourselves."

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What has not yet emerged is easy to prevent.

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The eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you; one in seeing; one in knowing; one in loving.

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Treat the large as the small and the few as the many.

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Requite injury with kindness.

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He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the world as he does his own body can be entrusted with the world.

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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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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

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Those who know when to halt are unharmed.

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