To know you have enough is to be rich.
LAOZIIf people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
More Laozi Quotes
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If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
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He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.
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The world’s big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.
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All action begins in rest… This is the ultimate truth.
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Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.
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The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.
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Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.
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The great image lacks shape.
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Make the small big and the few many.
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The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.
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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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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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I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
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Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
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