The further one goes, the less one knows.
LAO TZUWe shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.
More Lao Tzu Quotes
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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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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
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Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.
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If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.
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Great acts are made up of small deeds.
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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
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Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.
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To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
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The road you can talk about is not the road you can walk on.
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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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When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
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Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.
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When goodness is lost there is morality.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
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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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As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.
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Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.
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Because of a great love, one is courageous
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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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One accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.
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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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Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.
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