Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
LAOZIHe who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.
More Laozi Quotes
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If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.
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Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them… If the sage would guide the people, he must serve with humility. If he would lead them, he must follow behind. In this way when the sage rules, the people will not feel oppressed.
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Not praising the deserving prevents envy.
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Softness 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.
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The world’s big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.
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Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.
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The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.
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When the highest type of people hear Tao (Truth), they diligently practice it. When the average type of people hear Tao, they half believe in it. When the lowest type of people hear Tao, they laugh at it. If they did not laugh, it would not be Tao.
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There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
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What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher? What is a bad man but a good man’s job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.
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Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.
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Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
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The farther you go, the less you know.
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Stop thinking, and end your problems.
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