Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
LAOZIA scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
More Laozi Quotes
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
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Return animosity with virtue.
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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.
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No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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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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Wear down to be renewed.
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The wise man knows without traveling.
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He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.
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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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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
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Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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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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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you.
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