Laozi Quotes, Order Quotes, Way Quotes

As for the "proper way:" it is the beginning of disorder.

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A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

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What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven converge; or like the female throughout the world, who by quiescence always overcomes the male. And quiescence is a form of humility.

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Know honor, Yet keep humility. Be the valley of the universe! Being the valley of the universe, Ever true and resourceful, Return to the state of the uncarved block.

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The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies.

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Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.

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The rigid tree will be felled.

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The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

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The Tao never does anything, yet through it all things are done. If powerful men and women could venter themselves in it, the whole world would be transformed by itself, in its natural rhythms. People would be content with their simple, everyday lives, in harmony, and free of desire. When there is no desire, all things are at peace.

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Those who of old were good practicers of Tao did not use it to make people bright, but rather used it to make them simple.

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

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It is wealth to be content.

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Those who make their living by collecting taxes cause the people to starve; when the people starve, the tax collectors, having no one to tax, starve also

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Those who are content suffer no disgrace.

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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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Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

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By steadily disciplining the animal nature, until it becomes one pointed, it is possible to establish conscious awareness of The Eternal.

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When everyone sees good, then bad exists.

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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

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The Way is ever nameless.

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