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.
LAOZIWhat 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.
More Laozi Quotes
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Excellent warriors are not violent.
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He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.
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Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.
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If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
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The farther you go, the less you know.
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The light of the Way seems dim.
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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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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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The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.
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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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In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.
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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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Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.
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I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.
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