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Practice Quotes by Laozi
- To practice virtue is to selflessly offer assistance to others, giving without limitation one's time, abilities, and possessions in service, whenever and wherever needed, without…
- The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice.
- When the highest type of people hear Tao (Truth), they diligently practice it. When the average type of people hear Tao, they half believe in…
- Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion,…
- My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice. Yet your intellect will never grasp them, and if you try to practice…
- My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice. Still, no one in the world can understand or practice them.
- Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes…
- If you wish to become a divine immortal angel, then restore the angelic qualities of your being through virtue and service. This is the only…
- Does one scent appeal more than another? Do you prefer this flavor, or that feeling? Is your practice sacred and your work profane? Then your…
- The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets…
- The first practice is the practice of undiscriminating virtue: take care of those who are deserving; also, and equally, take care of those who are…
- In harmony with the Tao, the sky is clear and spacious, the earth is solid and full, all creature flourish together, content with the way…
- If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling…
- Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.
- Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place.
- Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.
- Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life…
More Practice Quotes
- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. — Teresa of Avila
- Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the… — Hosea Ballou
- To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong