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Laozi Quotes - Page 50

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The journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath your feet. NOTE: Other translations exist, such as:Great trees grow from the smallest shoots;a terraced garden, from a pile of earth,and a journey of a thousand

The journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath your feet. NOTE: Other translations exist, such as:Great trees grow from the smallest shoots;a terraced garden, from a pile of earth,and a journey of a thousand milesbegins by taking the initial step.

Journey, Garden, Feet

Sages do not accumulate for themselves. The more they give to others, the more they possess of their own. The way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.

Giving, Heaven, Sage

True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.

Taken, Humility, Humble

The net of heaven is very wide in its meshes, and yet it misses nothing.

Missing, Heaven, Mesh

To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.

Enlightened, Know Yourself, Knows

Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.

Peace, War, Men

The wise man does not lay up treasure. The more he expends on others, the more he gains for himself. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

"The Book of the Simple Way of Laotze: A New Translation from the Text of the Tao-teh-king".

When people are unsettled, loyal ministers arise.

People, Taoism, Loyal

All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.

Humility, Sea, Giving

He who is able to conquer others is powerful; he who is able to conquer himself is more powerful.

Powerful, Justice, Diversity

Laozi, Henri Borel, Kang-hu Kiang (1939). “Laotzu's Tao and wu-wei: A new translation by Bhikshu Wai-tao and Dwight Goddard. Interpretive essays by Henri Borel. Outline of Taoist philosophy and religion by Dr. Kiang Kang-hu”

The softest in the world surpasses the hardest in the world.

Taoism, World, Hardest

We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.

Moving, Together, Wheels

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.

People, Evil, World

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.

Inspirational, Leadership, Jobs

He who is contented is rich.

Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.

Inspirational, Leadership, Work

Movement overcomes cold.

Taoism, Overcoming, Movement

Laozi (1999). “Laozi”

To the good I would be good; to the not-good I would also be good, in order to make them good.

Compassion, Order, Would Be

All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.

Tree, Taoism, Dry

The Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao.

Tao Te Ching, Tao, Tao Ching

When many people are killed, they should be mourned and lamented. Those who are victorious in war should follow the rites of funerals.

War, People, Funeral

The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.

Taoism, Weak, Companion

Great, it passes on (in constant flow).

Flow, Constant

Laozi (2015). “Tao Te Ching”, p.25, Booklassic

Returning to the source is serenity.

Serenity, Source

The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things. Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations. Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Real, Names, Darkness Within

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