Laozi Quotes

What is and what is not create each other.

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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

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The Tao can't be perceived. Smaller than an electron, it contains uncountable galaxies. If powerful men and women could remain centered in the Tao, all things would be in harmony. The world would become a paradise. All people would be at peace, and the law would be written in their hearts. When you have names and forms, know that they are provisional. When you have institutions, know where their functions should end. Knowing when to stop, you can avoid any danger. All things end in the Tao as rivers flow into the sea.

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Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.

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Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.

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The way is light and fluid for the man with no preferences.

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Those who are unswerving have resolve

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Racing through the field and hunting make the mind wild.

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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.

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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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The feminine values are the fountain of bliss. Know the masculine, Keep to the feminine.

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Those who defeat others are strong, those who defeat themselves are mighty.

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What's the difference between beautiful and ugly?

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Gain or loss, what is worse?

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The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This is why it is so similar to the Way.

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Heaven and Earth are not kind. They regard all things as offerings.

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Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]

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He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to be renewed.

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The sage honors his part of the settlement, but does not exact his due from others.

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A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.

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