Laozi Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Knives Quotes

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

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With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour.

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Yielding is the way of the Tao.

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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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Warriors say: I dare not be like the host, but would rather be like the guest. I dare not advance an inch, but would rather retreat a foot.

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Great indeed is the sublimity of the creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

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From caring comes courage.

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ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.

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

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Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

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He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.

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Arms are instruments of ill omen, not the instruments of the gentleman. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish.

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The progress of the Way seems retreating.

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Those who die without being forgotten get longevity.

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Those who praise victory relish manslaughter. Those who relish manslaughter cannot reach their goals in the world.

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Tao loves and nourishes all things, but does not dominate it over them.

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The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao.

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Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.

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There are three layers to the universe. In the lower, Tai Ching, and the middle, Shan Ching, the hindrance of a physical bodily existence is required. Those who fail to live consistently in accord with the Tao reside here. In the upper, Yu Ching, there is only Tao: the bondage of form is broken, and the only thing existing is the exquisite energy dance of the immortal divine beings.

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Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing. To be all-embracing leads to righteousness, which is majestic.

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