Quotes About Lao Tzu

#1. Things' essences all there endure.

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#2. Stop thinking, and end your problems.

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#3. Great acts are made up of small deeds.

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#4. Constant action overcomes cold; being still overcomes heat.

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#5. Attain complete emptiness,
Hold fast to stillness.
Understanding the ordinary:
Mind opens.
Mind opening leads to compassion,
Compassion to nobility,
Nobility to heavenliness,
Heavenliness to TAO.
TAO endures.
Your body dies.
There is no danger.

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#6. Those who speak do not know.
Those who know do not speak.

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#7. Your boyfriend's penis is not an awkward string of spaghetti that has to be scooped up and sucked down. The Emperor of China once asked Lao-tzu: How should I rule the kingdom? To which Lao-tzu replied: Rule the kingdom as you would cook a small fish. A really good blowjob is the same.

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#8. Racing and hunting madden our minds.

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#9. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds
whatever we want.

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#10. It produces them and does not claim them as its own;

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#11. What calamity is greater than no contentment,
and what flaw greater than the passion for gain.

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#12. Seeing our own smallness is called insight, honoring our own tenderness is called strenght.

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#13. The person of superior integrity
does not insist upon his integrity.
For this reason, he has integrity.
The person of inferior integrity
never loses sight of his integrity;
For this reason, he lacks integrity.

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#14. I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

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#15. Something can be beautiful, if something else is ugly.
Someone can be good, if someone else is bad.

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#16. When one gives undivided attention to the (vital) breath, and brings it to the utmost degree of pliancy, he can become as a (tender) babe.

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#17. In the next age they loved them and praised them.

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#18. They shall wear elegant and ornamented robes, carry a sharp sword at their girdle, pamper themselves in eating and drinking, and have a superabundance of property and wealth; - such (princes) may be called robbers and boasters.

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#19. The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground
While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.

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#20. Pursue that which is not meddlesome.

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#21. Whoever knows what is enough Will be happy with his fate.

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#22. Therefore, what has a (positive) existence serves for profitable adaptation, and what has not that for (actual) usefulness.

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#23. Thus it is said:
The path into light seems dark,
the path forward seems to go back,
the direct path seems long,
true power seems weak ...
the greatest love seems indifferent,
the greatest wisdom seems childish.

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#24. Therefore the place of what is firm and strong is below, and that of what is soft and weak is above.

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#25. Only those who do not use life as a reason for artificialities are intelligently valuing life.

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#26. He who is self-conceited has no superiority allowed to him.

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#27. Big trees grow from sprouts, tall buildings rise from mounds of earth; the loftiest heights start at your feet.

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#28. Misery and fortune share a trust.
Happiness hides in misery.

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#29. The great Tao is universal like a flood ... All creatures depend on it, and it denies nothing to anyone. It does its work, but it makes no claims for itself. It clothes and feeds all, but it does not lord it over them.

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#30. He who conquers other has force; he who conquers himself has strength.

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#31. The sages do not act from (any wish to be) benevolent; they deal with the people as the dogs of grass are dealt with.

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#32. It might appear to have been before God.

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#33. True words are not fancy. Fancy words are not true. The good do not debate. Debaters are not good.

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#34. Heaven and Earth (under its guidance) unite together and send down the sweet dew, which, without the directions of men, reaches equally everywhere as of its own accord.

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#35. Those who speak know nothing. Those who know are silent.

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#36. Loving someone gives you courage; being loved back gives you strength. -Lao Tzu

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#37. It is the child that sees the primordial secret of Nature and it is the child of ourselves we return to. the child within us is simple and daring enough to live the Secret.

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#38. Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, earnestly carry it into practice.

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#39. The kingdom is a spirit-like thing, and cannot be got by active doing.

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#40. 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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#41. An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

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#42. From self-boasting, and therefore his merit is acknowledged;

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#43. Creating without claiming. Doing without taking credit. Guiding without interfering. This is primal virtue.

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#44. The Tao is hidden, and has no name; but it is the Tao which is skilful at imparting (to all things what they need) and making them complete.

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#45. Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding

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#46. A good traveler leaves no tracks.

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#47. What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.

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#48. The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

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#49. When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil. - Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching

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#50. Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

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#51. To lead people, you must follow behind.

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#52. Boasting of wealth and virtue brings your demise.

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#53. He is free from self- display, and therefore he shines;

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#54. Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

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#55. Highly evolved people have their own conscience as pure law.

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#56. The first is gentleness; the second is economy; and the third is shrinking from taking precedence of others.

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#57. When its work is accomplished, it does not claim the name of having done it.

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#58. The people starve because those in authority over them devour too many taxes; that is why they starve.

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

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#60. May not the space between heaven and earth be compared to a bellows?

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#61. But I have heard that he who is skilful in managing the life entrusted to him for a time travels on the land without having to shun rhinoceros or tiger, and enters a host without having to avoid buff coat or sharp weapon.

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#62. Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

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#63. If we could renounce our benevolence and discard our righteousness, the people would again become filial and kindly.

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#64. The sage shuns excess, shuns grandiosity, shuns arrogance.

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#65. There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

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#66. Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

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#67. Know glory but cleave to humiliation.

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#68. Stop trying to leave, and you shall arrive; stop seeking, and you shall see; stop running away, and you shall be found.

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#69. To lead the people, walk behind them.

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#70. What makes me liable to great calamity is my having the body (which I call myself); if I had not the body, what great calamity could come to me?

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#71. Therefore the sage, while he never does what is great, is able on that account to accomplish the greatest things.

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#72. Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?

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#73. Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.

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#74. The moral man does something,
and when no one responds
he rolls up his sleeves and uses force.

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#75. When the Great Tao (Way or Method) ceased to be observed, benevolence and righteousness came into vogue.

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#76. Therefore the sages got their knowledge without travelling;

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#77. The skilful closer needs no bolts or bars, while to open what he has shut will be impossible;

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#78. Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.

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#79. Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.

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#80. A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

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#81. Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

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#82. When a person puts on a show, trying to appear great, their mediocrity is soon exposed.

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#83. One who speaks does not know One who knows does not speak

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#84. A sage traveling all day
is never far from the supplies in his cart,
and however spectacular the views
he remains calm and composed.

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#85. One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

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#86. The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.

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#87. He who overcomes himself is mighty.

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#88. Laozi was an ancient Chinese philosopher. According to Chinese tradition, Laozi lived in the 6th century BC, however many historians contend that Laozi

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#89. Care about people's view and you will be their prisoner

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#90. He who speaks does not know; he who knows does not speak

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#91. This is what is called 'The mysterious Quality' (of the Tao).

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#92. By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

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#93. Let him keep his mouth open, and (spend his breath) in the promotion of his affairs, and all his life there will be no safety for him.

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#94. To know that unchanging rule is to be intelligent; not to know it leads to wild movements and evil issues.

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#95. An ocean of ink in a single drop,
Trembling at the tip of my brush.
Poised above stark white paper,
A universe waits for existence.

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#96. If you become whole, everything will come to you.

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#97. The Master is her own physician.
She has healed herself of all knowing.
Thus she is truly whole.

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#98. Some say that my teaching is nonsense.
Other call it lofty but impractical.
But to those who have looked inside themselves,
this nonsense makes perfect sense.
And to those who put it into practice,
this loftiness has roots that go deep.

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#99. When I let go of who I am, I become who I might be.

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#100. Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

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