"Attending fully and becoming supple, Can you be……" — Laozi
"Attending fully and becoming supple, Can you be as a newborn babe?"
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1,065 Quotes by Laozi
Laozi has 1,065 quotes on this site.
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Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they…
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Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.
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He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall…
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Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he…
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He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the…
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He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes…
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Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have…
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What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams…
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Therefore, if a great kingdom humbles itself before a small kingdom, it shall make that small kingdom its prize. And…
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The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know…
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Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be…
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The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he…
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More Attending Quotes
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I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending…
— Erma Bombeck
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
— John Burroughs
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Here Stormbringer spies the Stepsons, the Theban fighters, and the 3rd Commando, attending to their own. In the face of…
— Janet Morris
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The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly…
— Meher Baba
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After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of…
— Horace Mann
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We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in…
— George Washington
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Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept…
— Laozi
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I still get excited just attending a final four, because the process is so long, so arduous, so challenging, that…
— Karch Kiraly
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The best way to economize time is to 'lose' half an hour each day attending Holy Mass.
— Frederic Ozanam
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As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement…
— Marianne Moore
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Births and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every…
— Henry Lawson
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