The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.
LAOZIIn 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.
More Laozi Quotes
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Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.
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Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.
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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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I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
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Watch your thoughts, they become words.
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Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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Stop thinking, and end your problems.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
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The world’s beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.
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Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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The farther you go, the less you know.
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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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Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you.
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When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people’s hearts.
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