"Heaven's net is very vast. It is sparsely……" — Laozi
"Heaven's net is very vast. It is sparsely meshed, yet nothing slips through."
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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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What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and…
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Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I…
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The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up…
— Michele Bachmann
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— Russell Baker
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The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have…
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Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
— James A. Baldwin
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If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore…
— Robert Ballard
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I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me,…
— George Linnaeus Banks
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Just ten of the Jewish billionaires on this Earth have more than enough to transform the occupied territories into heaven.…
— Roseanne Barr
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then…
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