The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.
LAOZI…the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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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When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.
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The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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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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One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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Keep behind, and you shall be put in front; keep out, and you shall be kept in.
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I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
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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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The ego is entranced by … names and ideas… However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.
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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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Loss is not as bad as wanting more.
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Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.
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The wise man knows he doesn’t know.
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The world’s big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.
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