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Born Quotes by Laozi
- Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus…
- A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they…
- There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
- All things in the world are born out of being. Being is born out of non-being.
- People are born soft and weak. They die hard and stiff.
- The great Tao flows everywhere. All things are born from it, yet it doesn't create them. It pours itself into its work, yet it makes…
- 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…
- The Tao is infinite, eternal. Why is it eternal? It was never born; thus it can never die. Why is it infinite? It has no…
- The named was born from the unnamed . . . all being flows from non-being . . . the describable world emanates from an indescribable…
- From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.
- Being is born of not being.
More Born Quotes
- As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights… — Neil Armstrong
- I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. — David Attenborough
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was… — Margaret Atwood
- Art is born of humiliation. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
- You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is… — Sai Baba
- The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you… — Richard Bach