Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.
LAOZIWatch your thoughts, they become words.
More Laozi Quotes
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Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength
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Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness
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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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Make the small big and the few many.
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The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.
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When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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Every step is on the path.
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There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
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All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
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He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.
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To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
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. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.
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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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