Laozi Quotes, Tasks Quotes, Rewards Quotes

Complete your task. Seek no reward. Make no claims. Without faltering fully choose to do what you must do.

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If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

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Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.

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The rigid and big belong below. The soft and weak belong above.

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When great armies go to war, Sorrow is the sole winner.

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On the one hand, loss implies gain; on the other hand, gain implies loss.

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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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If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?

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The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge

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Be content with an ordinary life.

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Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.

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It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.

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To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.

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The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.

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Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion, complete your work cooperatively and joyfully, assume responsibility for problems, practice virtue without first demanding it of others, understand the highest truths yet retain an ordinary manner? That would be true clarity, true simplicity, true mastery.

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The one who does not stray away from her/his nature will live long.

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Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.

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The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not dazzle.

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Those who boast are not respected.

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Let the country be small, and the inhabitants few.

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