Top 15 Liezi Quotes

#1. People all know the pleasure of life but not the pain of life; they know the fatigue of old age, but not the freedom of old age; they know the horror of death but not the peace of death.

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#2. If a branch is too rigid, it will break. Resist, and you will perish. Know how to yield, and you will survive.

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#3. Once you transcend the external differences, anything can be merged with anything.

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#4. If you can dispense with reputation, then you are free from care. Reputation is only a visitor, but reality is here to stay.

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#5. Division and differentiation are the processes by which things are created. Since things are emerging and dissolving all the time, you cannot specify the point when this division will stop.

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#6. Complete people gaze into the blue sky above, plunge into the center of the earth below, and run freely in the eight directions without even a change of mood.

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#7. A person with a mind is bound to be filled with conceptions. These conceptions prevent him from knowing things directly, so a person with a mind shall never really know.

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#8. He likes to use his wit and verbal finesse to confuse others and win arguments. Although he can argue successfully that white is black and straight is crooked, you walk away with the feeling that he's won the argument not because he is correct but because you can't outwit him.

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#9. Those who travel outward seek completeness in things; those who gaze inward find sufficiency in themselves.

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#10. the ancient saying that force outdoes inferiors while gentility outdoes superiors.

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#11. Develop flexibility and you will be firm; cultivate yielding and you will be strong.

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#12. The contented person finds rest in death, and for the greedy person, death puts an end to his long list of desires.

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#13. Strength should always be complimented by softness. If you resist too much, you will break. Thus, the strong person knows when to use strength and when to yield, and good fortune and disaster depend on whether you know how and when to yield.

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#14. When you know that illusion and transformation are no different from birth and death, then you may learn magic.

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#15. To solve a problem, you need to remove the cause, not the symptom.

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