Every step is on the path.
LAOZIConquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength
More Laozi Quotes
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The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
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A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.
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The world’s beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.
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The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.
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If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.
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…the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.
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All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
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Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.
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Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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The wise man knows without traveling.
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. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.
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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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No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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