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Laozi Quotes - Page 10

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Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.

Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.

Compassion, People, Taoism

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

Inspirational, Beautiful, Encouraging

When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Done

Laozi (2008). “Daodejing: A Literal-critical Translation”, University Press of Amer

Yielding is the way of the Tao.

Acceptance, Taoism, Way

There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born. It is serene. Empty. Solitary. Unchanging. Infinite. Eternally present. It is the mother of the universe. For lack of a better name, I call it the Tao. It flows through all things, inside and outside, and returns to the origin of all things. The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows the earth. Earth follows the universe. The universe follows the Tao. The Tao follows only itself.

Mother, Men, Names

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

Hate, Men, Solitude

Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and so on. Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.

Life, Attachment, Self

Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

There is no greater disaster than discontent.

Taoism, Disaster, Discontent

I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

Letting Go, Desire, Liberty

Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.

Wise, Men, Choices

Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.

Tao Te Ching, Desire, Mystery

"Tao Te Ching". Book by Laozi (Ch. 1), 4th century BC.

Solve it before it happens. Order it before chaos emerges.

Order, Taoism, Chaos

Prepare while it's easy.

Easy

If one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding.

Giving, Profound, Understanding

What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.

Teacher, Jobs, Intelligent

Take care with the end as you do with the beginning

Inspirational, Care, Take Care

Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching: A New Translation”

Abandon knowledge and your worries are over.

Knowledge, Worry, Taoism

In work, do what you enjoy.

Work, Enjoy

Look, and it can't be seen. Listen, and it can't be heard. Reach, and it can't be grasped. Above, it isn't bright. Below, it isn't dark. Seamless, unnamable, it returns to the realm of nothing. Form that includes all forms, image without an image, subtle, beyond all conception. Approach it and there is no beginning; follow it and there is no end. You can't know it, but you can be it, at ease in your own life. Just realize where you come from: this is the essence of wisdom.

Life, Dark, Essence

Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.

Kindness, Business, Design

Laozi, Sepharial (1904). “The Book of the Simple Way of Laotze: A New Translation from the Text of the Tao-teh-king”

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.

Inspirational, Nature, Follow Your Heart

As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever.

Dream, Moving, Long

Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.

Positivity, Years, Roots

When you let go of what you are, you become what you might be.

Inspirational, Motivational, Letting Go

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