No disaster is worse than being discontented.
LAOZIA good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
More Laozi Quotes
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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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Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
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I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.
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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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Make the small big and the few many.
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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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The wise man knows he doesn’t know.
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The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
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In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.
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When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
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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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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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Health is the greatest possession.
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…the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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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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