When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
LAOZIEmpty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
More Laozi Quotes
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Return animosity with virtue.
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Excellent warriors are not violent.
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Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you.
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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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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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The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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The world’s big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.
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The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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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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The sage acts by doing nothing.
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The light of the Way seems dim.
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Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.
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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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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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