Laozi Quotes, Wise Quotes, Past Quotes

The wise man looks back into the past, and does not grieve over what is far off, nor rejoice over what is near; for he knows that time is without end.

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There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.

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The Tao's principle is spontaneity.

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You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science.

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Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself.

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That so few understand me is why I am treasured.

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The separate parts make no carriage.

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When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious.

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Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.

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Trustable words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not trustable.

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If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.

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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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Confidence is the greatest friend.

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The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to yin and yang. Yin and yang give birth to all things... The complete whole is the complete whole. So also is any part the complete whole... But forget about understanding and harmonizing and making all things one. The universe is already a harmonious oneness; just realize it.

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Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. . . . If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind.

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There is no illusion great than fear.

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When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.

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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

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Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful.

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

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