Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
LAOZIWatch your thoughts, they become words.
More Laozi Quotes
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The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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Excellent warriors are not violent.
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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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Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
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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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There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
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To lead, one must follow.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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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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Stop thinking, and end your problems.
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Meet the big while it is small.
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To know you have enough is to be rich.
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Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
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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 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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