Laozi Quotes, Pride Quotes, Blessing Quotes

Some help others in order to receive blessings and admiration. This is simply meaningless. Some cultivate themselves in part to serve others, in part to serve their own pride. They will understand, at best, half of the truth. But those who improve themselves for the sake of the world - to these, the whole truth of the universe will be revealed.

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

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Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be before the people, he must put himself behind them. In this way, though he has his place above them, the people do not feel his weight; though he has his place before them, they do not feel it as an injury. Therefore all mankind delight to exalt him, and weary of him not.

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Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.

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I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness.

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Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. Therefore having and not having arise together. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short contrast each other. High and low rest upon each other. Voice and sound harmonize each other. Front and back follow one another.

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The highest benevolence acts without purpose.

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The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.

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The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete.

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Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.

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

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The wise person dines on something more subtle: He eats the understanding that the named was born from the unnamed, that all being flows from non-being, that the describable world emanates from an indescribable source.

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Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.

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Observe how endings become beginnings.

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To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.

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If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve. Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.

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He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to be renewed.

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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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In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.

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The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas... However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.

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