Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
LAOZIMake your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
More Laozi Quotes
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The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.
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No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.
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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 more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.
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…the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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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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Return animosity with virtue.
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To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.
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What resists, persists.
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Meet the difficult while it is easy.
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To know you have enough is to be rich.
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