If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.
LAO TZUTo attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
More Lao Tzu Quotes
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Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.
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Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.
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To know that you do not know is the best.
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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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Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.
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Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.
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Silence is a source of Great Strength.
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As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.
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To understand the limitation of things, desire them.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?
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The further one goes, the less one knows.
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If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
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Time is a created thing. To say I don’t have time, is like saying, I don’t want to.
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Because of a great love, one is courageous
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
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If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.
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Great acts are made up of small deeds.
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A great nation is like a great man: When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.
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We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.
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There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.
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By letting go it all gets done.
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Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
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When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people’s hearts.
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When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
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