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Living Quotes by Laozi
- Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.
- Man, when living, is soft and tender; when dead, he is hard and tough. All animals and plants when living are tender and delicate; when…
- Because he is a living divinity, when he acts, the universe acts.
- Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.
- Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.
- Heaven and Earth last for ever. Why do Heaven and Earth last for ever? They are unborn, so ever living. The sage stays behind, thus…
- If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
- People who have to fight for their living and are not afraid to die for it are higher persons than those who, stationed high, are…
- Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone.
- If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
- 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…
- Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
More Living Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov