Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
LAO TZUSpring comes, and the grass grows by itself.
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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All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.
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When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
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If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.
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New Beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
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Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are.
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The best fighter is never angry.
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Great acts are made up of small deeds.
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To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
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Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
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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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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know.
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The road you can talk about is not the road you can walk on.
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Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
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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 understand the limitation of things, desire them.
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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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Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.
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A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.
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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.
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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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One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.
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If you are untrustworthy, people will not trust you.
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