Laozi Quotes, Taoism Quotes, Principles Quotes

The Tao's principle is spontaneity.

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Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.

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Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

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Great indeed is the sublimity of the creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

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

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Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.

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In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man.

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Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony.

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Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose

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Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it.

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Conclusions are ignorance arrested on the path to less ignorance.

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If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.

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The sturdiest virtue seems fragile.

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The gentlest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world. That which has no substance enters where there is no space. This shows the value of non-action. Teaching without words, performing without actions: that is the Master's way.

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He who is attached to things will suffer much.

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Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.

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When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is the student offering himself to the teacher, or the teacher offering herself to the student. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors.

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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

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Those who do not trust enough should not be trusted.

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The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.

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