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Laozi Quote: “That so few understand me is why I am treasured.”
Laozi Quote: “When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.”
Laozi Quote: “Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.”
Laozi Quote: “A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.”
Laozi Quote: “A tree that can fill the span of a man’s arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one’s feet.”
Laozi Quote: “The perfect square lacks corners.”
Laozi Quote: “If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.”
Laozi Quote: “Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?”
Laozi Quote: “Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.”
Laozi Quote: “Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.”
Laozi Quote: “I alone have the mind of a fool, and am all muddled and vague. The people are so smart and bright. While I am just dull and confused.”
Laozi Quote: “The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.”
Laozi Quote: “In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.”
Laozi Quote: “The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation.”
Laozi Quote: “When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.”
Laozi Quote: “Without looking through the window, you can see Heaven’s Way.”
Laozi Quote: “Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.”
Laozi Quote: “The well-run group is not a battlefield of egos.”
Laozi Quote: “A good person is the bad person’s teacher. A bad person is the good person’s task.”
Laozi Quote: “Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.”
Laozi Quote: “When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body’s intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born.”
Laozi Quote: “Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!”
Laozi Quote: “A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!”
Laozi Quote: “All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.”
Laozi Quote: “The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound of earth. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Laozi Quote: “The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room...”
Laozi Quote: “A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.”
Laozi Quote: “The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.”
Laozi Quote: “The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.”
Laozi Quote: “Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor’s son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief and spoke like a thief. But the man found his ax while digging in the valley, and the next time he saw his neighbor’s son, the boy walked, looked and spoke like any other child.”
Laozi Quote: “Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.”
Laozi Quote: “Pounding an edge to sharpness will not make it last.”
Laozi Quote: “The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout...”
Laozi Quote: “When everyone in the world sees beauty, then ugly exists.”
Laozi Quote: “The fish cannot leave the deep waters. The state’s weaponry should not be displayed.”
Laozi Quote: “The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.”
Laozi Quote: “There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.”
Laozi Quote: “If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.”
Laozi Quote: “A skillful commander is not overbearing. A skillful fighter does not become angry. A skillful conqueror does not compete with people. One who is skillful in using men puts himself below them. This is called the strength to use men. This is called matching Heaven, The highest principle of old.”
Laozi Quote: “People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.”
Laozi Quote: “He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.”
Laozi Quote: “Of the second-rate leaders people speak respectfully saying, “He has done this, he has done that.” Of the first-rate leaders, they do not say this. They say, “We have done it all ourselves.””
Laozi Quote: “The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be.”
Laozi Quote: “In the Golden Age, Rulers were unknown. In the following age Rulers were loved and praised. Next came the age When rulers were feared. Finally the age When rulers are hated.”
Laozi Quote: “He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will never desert him. He returns to the state of a little child.”
Laozi Quote: “The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.”
Laozi Quote: “Can you comprehend everything in the four directions and still do nothing?”
Laozi Quote: “Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed.”
Laozi Quote: “Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.”
Laozi Quote: “Good leaders reach solutions, and then stop. They do not dare to rely on force.”
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