Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.
LAOZIThere was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
More Laozi Quotes
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From caring comes courage.
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The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.
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He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.
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When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people’s hearts.
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If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.
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Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.
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…the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.
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The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.
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The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.
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He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.
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Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.
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The light of the Way seems dim.
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When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
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Watch your thoughts, they become words.
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Not praising the deserving prevents envy.
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Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.
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The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.
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Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
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Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.
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Meet the difficult while it is easy.
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The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.
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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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In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.
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The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
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To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
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