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Laozi Quotes - Page 45

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The Way of Heaven does not complete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.

The Way of Heaven does not complete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.

Heaven, Victory, Doe

The Way is eternal. Until your last day, you are free from peril.

Taoism, Way, Lasts

Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful.

Taoism, Wheels, Thirty

A climb of eight hundred feet starts where the foot stands.

Eight, Feet, Taoism

Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.

Army, Taoism, Grows

A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.

Men, Weak, Born

The soft and weak can overcome the hard and strong.

Strong, Taoism, Overcoming

"Tao Tê Ching".

He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Powerful, Learning, Intelligent

Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.36, Jain Publishing Company

The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao.

People, Taoism, Balance

To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life.

Loss, Joy, Human Life

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

Without looking through the window, you can see Heaven's Way.

Heaven, Taoism, Way

Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pots not is where it's useful. Cut doors and windows to make a room. Where the room isn't, there's room for you. So the profit in what is, is in the use of what isn't.

Life, Cutting, Doors

Those who stand on their toes are not steady.

Taoism, Toes, Steady

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Inspirational, Taoism, Dozing

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

The longer you travel, the less you know.

Taoism, Knows

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

Taoism, Way, Eternal

Returning is the movement of the Way.

Taoism, Movement, Way

Lao Tzu, Laozi, William Scott Wilson (2012). “Tao Te Ching: An All-new Translation”, p.114, Shambhala Publications

Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.

Compassion, Sea, Taoism

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

People, Taoism, Too Much

Laozi (1939). “The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu”

Great indeed is the sublimity of the creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

Creativity, Creative, Heaven

The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.

Leadership, Wise, Motivation

The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.

Evil, Distortion, Method

Colin Bradshaw-Jones, Laozi, Lao Tzu (2006). “The Tao Te Ching, Eighty-one Maxims from the Father of Taoism”, p.82, Lulu.com

Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.

Water, Doe, Benefits

Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is known and feared; the worst government is hated.

Government, People, Next

Act non-action; undertake no undertaking; taste the tasteless.

Taste, Action, Undertakings

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

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