A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
LAOZISee others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.
More Laozi Quotes
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Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.
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If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
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Wear down to be renewed.
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There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
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To know you have enough is to be rich.
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No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
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When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people’s hearts.
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Watch your thoughts, they become words.
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What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.
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He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.
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Heavy is the root of light.
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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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