Laozi Quotes, Lying Quotes, Water Quotes

The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.

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If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and crafty. When the will to power is in charge, the higher the ideals, the lower the results. Try to make people happy, and you lay the groundwork for misery. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice. Thus the Master is content to serve as an example and not to impose her will. She is pointed, but doesn't pierce. Straightforward, but supple. Radiant, but easy on the eyes.

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If your virtue is especially radiant, it can be possible to open a pathway to the subtle realm and receive these celestial teachings directly from the immortals.

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Treat the large as the small and the few as the many.

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The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves greatness.

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Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?

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Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health.

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If you worry more for others' beliefs, then you will be their slave.

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The wise man does not lay up treasure. The more he expends on others, the more he gains for himself. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

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A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.

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Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.

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To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.

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Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.

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A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

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It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

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The farther you go, the less you know.

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To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

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The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.

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When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

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Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Time Quotes , Law Quotes