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Laozi Quotes - Page 5

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If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.

If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.

Spiritual, Kindness, Wicked

To understand the limitation of things, desire them.

Tao Te Ching, Desire, Tao Ching

Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.

Greed, Thieves, Profit

Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.

Art, Martial Arts

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

Teacher, People, Needs

Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.

Arrogance, Accomplish, Shows

Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love.

Relationship, Kindness, Communication

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. Being and non-being create each other. Difficult and easy support each other. Long and short define each other. High and low depend on each other. Before and after follow each other. Therefore the Master acts without doing anything and teaches without saying anything. Things arise and she lets them come; things disappear and she lets them go. She has but doesn't possess, acts but doesn't expect. When her work is done, she forgets it. That is why it lasts forever.

Beauty, Beautiful, Difficult And Easy

The wise man doesn't compete; therefore nobody can compete with him.

Wise, Men, Competition

Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.

Love, Giving Up, People

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, you position is shaky. When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance. What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear? 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? See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things.

Fear, Failure, Mean

The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.

Letting Go, World, Courses

Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

True words aren't eloquent; eloquent words aren't true. Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise. The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is. The Tao nourishes by not forcing. By not dominating, the Master leads.

Leadership, Wise, Men

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Love, Anniversary, Taoism

Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.

Knowledge, Knowing, Taoism

If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.

Wise, Men, Thinking

Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

Family, True Friend, Hate

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

The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting.

Taoism, Acting, Sage

Accept disgrace willingly... Accept being unimportant... Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.

Love, Self, World

Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.

Morality, Goodness, Lost

Those who praise themselves do not prevail.

Taoism, Praise

Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose

Inspirational, Gains, Loses

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

Money, Heart, Knives

Strong winds do not last all morning, hard rains do not last all day.

Strong, Morning, Rain

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