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  • Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets one's heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he or she is automatically involved in fear of losing status.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Laozi Quotes , Heart Quotes , Eye Quotes
  • If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve. Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Laozi Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Hands Quotes
  • In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle - this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Laozi Quotes , Strong Quotes , Kindness Quotes
  • Yield and overcome; Bend and be straight; Empty and be full; Wear out and be new; Have little and gain; Have much and be confused. ...The ancients say, "Yield and overcome." Is that an empty saying? Be really whole, And all things will come to you.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Laozi Quotes , Confused Quotes , Yield Quotes