Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
LAOZILoss is not as bad as wanting more.
More Laozi Quotes
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Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.
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An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.
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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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Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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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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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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If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
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If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
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Meandering leads to perfection.
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A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.
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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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Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.
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The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.
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One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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