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Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

Laozi

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 it. When the lowest type of people hear Tao, they laugh at it. If they did not laugh, it would not be Tao.
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Average Believe Diligently Practice
Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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Crouch Happiness Misery
Meet the difficult while it is easy.
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Difficult Easy Meet Taoism
What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.
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Abandon Kings People Sell Taoism
Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
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Brim Fill Halt Taoism Way
The wise man knows without traveling.
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Know Man Travel Wise
The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.
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Desire Earth Inspirational Move
When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.
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Accomplish Goal Heaven Taoism
The light of the Way seems dim.
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Dim Light Reflection Taoism Way
He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.
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Dispute Emotion Feelings Love
An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.
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Accomplish Action Inspirational Integral
There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
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Earth Finish Heaven Something Taoism
The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.
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Baggage Emotion Grievance Past
All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
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Desire Men Taoism Themselves
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.
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Arrive Artist Change Good Intuition
In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.
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Age Next People Praise

Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

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Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

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