Laozi Quotes, Order Quotes, Action Quotes

Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.

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Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. . . . If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind.

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Confidence is the greatest friend.

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Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.

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Take care with the end as you do with the beginning

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Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

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Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.

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If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve

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A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot.

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When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals.

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Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. . . . Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.

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Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.

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Good leaders reach solutions, and then stop. They do not dare to rely on force.

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Although there are weapons for tens and hundreds of soldiers, they will not be used.

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Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way.

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Learn from the people. Plan with the people. Begin with what they have. Build on what they know.

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You should rule a great country As you would fry a small fish- With the least turning.

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Let people take death seriously, and not travel far.

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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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Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and so on. Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.

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