Laozi Quotes, Heaven Quotes, Victory Quotes

The Way of Heaven does not complete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.

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Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way.

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People are hard to govern. The rulers interfere with too much. That is why people are hard to govern.

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Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.

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Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

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Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

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To the good I would be good; to the not-good I would also be good, in order to make them good.

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To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.

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To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.

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The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.

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No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.

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To lead people, walk behind them.

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Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can't be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures.

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If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.

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People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.

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If you want everything, you first have to give everything up.

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Behave simply and hold on to purity.

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Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.

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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

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Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.

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