Laozi Quotes, Life Quotes, Acting Quotes

The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.

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Other people have more than they need, I alone seem wanting.

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He who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

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Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.

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What is a good man? A teacher of a bad man. What is a bad man? A good man's charge?

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All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All things alike do their work, and then we see them subside. When they have reached their bloom, each returns to its origin. . . . This reversion is an eternal law. To know that law is wisdom.

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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

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The reason for great distress is the body. Without it, what distress could there be?

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When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be taken from you.

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If princes and kings could follow it (Tao), all things would by themselves abide, Heaven and Earth would unite and sweet dew would fall. People would by themselves find harmony, without being commanded.

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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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For one gains by losing And loses by gaining.

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Stay at the center and let all things take their course.

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Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

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Seal the openings, shut the doors, and until your last day you will not be exhausted. Widen the openings, interfere, and until your last day you will not be safe.

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We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.

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The wise cares about everyone, and he becomes an example to all.

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Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.

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The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.

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