Nature is not human hearted.
LAOZISoftness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
More Laozi Quotes
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Wear down to be renewed.
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Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.
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Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.
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What resists, persists.
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That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
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To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
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A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
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The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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The wise man knows without traveling.
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Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.
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No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness
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The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the energy ascends… then self mastery can be sought.
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Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it’s own accord.
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