Laozi Quotes, Acting Quotes, Overcoming Quotes

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

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Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.

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Hold on to the great image, and the whole world follows, follows unharmed, content and completely at peace.

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Stay at the center and let all things take their course.

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Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.

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In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.

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Be truly whole, and all things will return to you.

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He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.

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Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune.

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Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.

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For one gains by losing And loses by gaining.

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When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.

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What's the difference between beautiful and ugly?

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Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not.

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The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.

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I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.

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The greatest revelation is stillness.

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When people are unsettled, loyal ministers arise.

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Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity of robbers. It is certainly not the Way.

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We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.

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