"Being a model to the world, eternal virtue……" — Laozi
"Being a model to the world, eternal virtue will never falter in you, and you return to the boundless."
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1,065 Quotes by Laozi
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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 Boundless Quotes
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When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny,…
— Kirstie Alley
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Everything necessary to the full and complete expression of the most boundless experience of joy is mine now.
— Ernest Holmes
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It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are…
— Arthur Tappan Pierson
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If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously…
— Joyce Brothers
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The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that…
— John Garrett
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Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a…
— Thomas Huxley
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There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l…
— Claude Debussy
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Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific…
— George Whitefield
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It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had…
— Diane Arbus
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