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.
LAOZIWhat resists, persists.
More Laozi Quotes
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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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All action begins in rest… This is the ultimate truth.
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When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.
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The farther you go, the less you know.
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To know you have enough is to be rich.
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Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.
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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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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.
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The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.
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Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher? What is a bad man but a good man’s job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.
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Loss is not as bad as wanting more.
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Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.
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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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When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
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What resists, persists.
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To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.
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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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The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.
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Meet the difficult while it is easy.
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Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man’s tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.
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Nature is not human hearted.
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