Difficult Quotes by Laozi

Meet the difficult while it is easy.

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In the Universe the difficult things are done as if they were easy.

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The sage regards things as difficult, and thereby avoids difficulty.

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

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The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning.

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People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.

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What Heaven detests, who knows why? Even the sage considers it difficult.

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Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small.

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Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet…

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Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting with it when small.

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Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in…

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He who regards many things easy will find many difficulties. Therefore the sage regards things difficult, and consequently never has difficulties.

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Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is still small. Difficult undertakings have always…

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Do nondoing, strive for nonstriving, savor the flavorless, regard the small as important, make much of little, repay enmity with virtue; plan…

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Act without doing; work without effort. Think of the small as large and the few as many. Confront the difficult while it…

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The ancient Masters didn't try to educate the people, but kindly taught them to not-know. When they think that they know the…

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Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there…

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