Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
LAOZIWith virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
More Laozi Quotes
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Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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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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Keep behind, and you shall be put in front; keep out, and you shall be kept in.
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Return animosity with virtue.
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Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.
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If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
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The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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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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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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Not praising the deserving prevents envy.
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Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people’s hearts.
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The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.
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Empty 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.
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