Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?
LAO TZUAll streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.
More Lao Tzu Quotes
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Just remain in the center; watching. And then forget that you are there.
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The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.
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Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry.
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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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We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.
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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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The road you can talk about is not the road you can walk on.
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When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready. The teacher will Disappear.
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A great nation is like a great man: When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.
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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
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The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know.
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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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We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.
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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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