Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
LAO TZURespond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
More Lao Tzu Quotes
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
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If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
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If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.
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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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Loss is not as bad as wanting more.
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We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.
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To know that you do not know is the best.
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Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don’t see the self as self, what do we have to fear?
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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
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When goodness is lost there is morality.
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Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are.
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Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.
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Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.
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