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Laozi Quotes - Page 6

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Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

Tao Te Ching, Trying, Ruins

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve

Inspirational, Change, Spiritual

Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.

Simple, Self, Simplicity

Health is the greatest possession.

Health, Possession

The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.

Wise, Men, Motivational Sales

Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.

Not Caring, People, Tao Te Ching

What resists, persists.

Persist

Simply see that you are at the center of the universe, and accept all things and beings as parts of your infinite body. When you perceive that an act done to another is done to yourself, you have understood the great truth.

Apology, Done, Body

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

Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.

Love, Inspirational, Blocked

Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.

Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao.

Agendas, Tao, Planning

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Love, Wisdom, Passion

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Artist, Intuition, Want

Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is close to the Way.

Compassion, People, Water

Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.

Doe, Enough, Knows

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

Success, Weed, Dream

Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Change, Happiness, Appreciation

A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.

Government, Politics, Helping

Excellent warriors are not violent.

Warrior, Taoism, Excellent

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Inspirational, Life, Summer

The world is won by those who let it go.

Letting Go, Attachment, Let It Go

"Tao Te Ching". Ch. 48, as translated by Raymond B. Blakney, 1955.

A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.

Teacher, Knowledge, Taoism

Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.

Sight, Doors, Long

Laozi (1905). “The Simple Way”

Peacefulness is an inner sense of calm - it comes from becoming still - in order to reflect and meditate on our inner wisdom and receive answers. A peaceful heart is one that is free from worry and rouble. It's becoming quiet so we can look at things quietly so we can more clearly understand them and thus come up with creative solutions. It is learning to live in the present. Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

Heart, Order, Worry

Act without expectation.

Expectations, Taoism

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