"The brittle is easy to shatter." — Laozi
"The brittle is easy to shatter."
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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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Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they…
— Laozi
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Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.
— Tom Robbins
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The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common…
— Canvass White
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The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut…
— K.J. Parker
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The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to…
— Jamais Cascio
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. Upon identifying the reason…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we…
— William Gaddis
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I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day…
— Ivan Goncharov
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But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in…
— Walker Percy
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Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.
— Billy Sunday
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