Laozi Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Clever Quotes

Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.

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Can you open and close the gate of Heaven and act like a woman?

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Excellent leaders of people lower themselves.

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The Way that can be walked is not the eternal Way.

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The world may be known Without leaving the house.

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Why are the people starving?- Because their grain is being eaten up by the taxes That's why they're starving Why are people rebellious?- Because those above them meddle in their lives That's why they're rebellious Why do people regard death so lightly?- Because they are so involved with their own living That's why they regard death so lightly In the end, The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on and gained by those who let go

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As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied the people grow poorer and poorer. When they are subjected to overmuch government, the land is thrown into confusion.

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Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.

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

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To have little is to possess.

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He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.

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A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.

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The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.

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Act without expectation.

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The sage does not strive to be great. Thereby he can accomplish the great.

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When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster.

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Accept disgrace willingly... Accept being unimportant... Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.

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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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Heaven's Way is like stretching a bow. The high is lowered and the low is raised. Excess is reduced and deficiency is replenished. Heaven's Way reduces excess and replenishes deficiency. People's Way is not so. They reduce the deficient and supply the excessive.

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From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.

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