If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
LAOZIA scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
More Laozi Quotes
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What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.
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Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you.
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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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The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.
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If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.
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No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.
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An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.
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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.
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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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A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
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The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.
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The light of the Way seems dim.
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