The higher the sun rises, the less shadow it casts;
by Lao Tzu

The higher the sun rises, the less shadow it casts;
even so, the greater is the goodness, the less it covets praise;
yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
- Lao Tzu

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The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu

To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu

The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu

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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu

Born to be wild - live to outgrow it.
- Lao Tzu

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

The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu

Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
- Lao Tzu

When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu

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

He who conquers others is strong;
He who conquers himself is mighty.
- Lao Tzu

To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu

Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu

Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu

Without stirring abroad,
One can know the whole world;
Without looking out of the window,
One can see the way of heaven.
The further one goes, The less one knows.
- Lao Tzu

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

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.
- Lao Tzu

He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu

A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu

The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu

To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)

Be merciful, moderate, and modest.
- Lao Tzu

Nature is not human hearted.
- Lao Tzu

One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
- Lao Tzu

Life and death are one thread,
the same line viewed from different sides.
- Lao Tzu

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline;
simulated fear postulates courage;
simulated weakness postulates strength.
- Lao Tzu

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

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

People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu

Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu

Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu

Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu

He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu

How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu

Those who have knowledge, don't predict.
Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
- Lao Tzu

Be the chief but never the lord.
- Lao Tzu

To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu

The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu

Violence, even well intentioned,
always rebounds upon oneself.
- Lao Tzu

He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu

I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu

Stay at the center
and let all things take their course.
- Lao Tzu

At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want.
- Lao Tzu

If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu

Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu

From wonder into wonder existence opens.
- Lao Tzu

He who knows others is clever;
He who knows himself has discernment.
- Lao Tzu

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity,
reduce selfishness, have few desires.
- Lao Tzu

Be simply yourself and don't compare or compete.
- Lao Tzu

He who does not trust enough,
will not be trusted.
- Lao Tzu

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
- Lao Tzu

Yielding is the way of the Tao.
- Lao Tzu

When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

The key to growth is the introduction of
higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
- Lao Tzu

To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
- Lao Tzu

He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu

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.
- Lao Tzu

He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
- Lao Tzu

Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
- Lao Tzu

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu

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