Laozi Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Letting Go Quotes

In the end, The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on and gained by those who let go

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A great nation is like a great man:When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.Having realized it, he admits it.Having admitted it, he corrects it.He considers those who point out his faultsas his most benevolent teachers.He thinks of his enemyas the shadow that he himself casts.

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One's own self or material goods, which has more worth? Loss (of self) or possession (of goods), which is the greater evil? He who loves most, spends most, He who hoards much loses much

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ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.

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Hold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning.

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Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.

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The best leaders are those their people hardly know exist. The next best is a leader who is loved and praised. Next comes the one who is feared. The worst one is the leader that is despised ... The best leaders value their words, and use them sparingly. When they have accomplished their task, the people say, "Amazing! We did it, all by ourselves!

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To understand the limitation of things, desire them.

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Prepare while it's easy.

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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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Yielding, like ice about to melt.

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To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.

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Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them.

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. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.

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Nothing and no one in the world is valuable or worthless.

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The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.

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If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.

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The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation.

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When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally.

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The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows.

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