To lead, one must follow.
LAOZIWatch your thoughts, they become words.
More Laozi Quotes
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The sage acts by doing nothing.
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Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
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Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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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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The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.
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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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All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
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Meandering leads to perfection.
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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
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Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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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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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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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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Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
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With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
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