We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.
LAO TZUDo you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?
More Lao Tzu Quotes
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Loss is not as bad as wanting more.
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The further one goes, the less one knows.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry.
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One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.
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Just remain in the center; watching. And then forget that you are there.
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A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.
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Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.
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To know that you do not know is the best.
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Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
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Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose.
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
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When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
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