The great image lacks shape.
LAOZIHappiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
More Laozi Quotes
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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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A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.
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The world’s big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.
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An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.
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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 Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.
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Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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Return animosity with virtue.
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All action begins in rest… This is the ultimate truth.
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When the highest type of people hear Tao (Truth), they diligently practice it. When the average type of people hear Tao, they half believe in it. When the lowest type of people hear Tao, they laugh at it. If they did not laugh, it would not be Tao.
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Stop thinking, and end your problems.
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A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.
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I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
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