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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

Watch your thoughts, they become words.
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Determination Motivational Smart
Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.
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Inspirational Problem Simple Small
One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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Inspirational Internal Peace Spiritual
Return animosity with virtue.
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Animosity Compassion Return Taoism
Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you.
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Fail Honor People
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
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Army Before Humility Leadership Other Put
Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
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Manipulation Mind Serenity Taoism
If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
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Country Law People Taoism
Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.
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Deed Honor Marketplace Men
Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
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Animal Empty Everything Fall Nature
The ego is entranced by … names and ideas… However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.
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Block Concept Name Perception Wise
There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
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Earth Finish Heaven Something Taoism
The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.
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Demand Depend Reach Taoism Thing Way
The farther you go, the less you know.
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Country Emotion Knows Leadership People Wisdom
To lead, one must follow.
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Follow Leadership Must People Vlife
The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.
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Courses Go Letting World

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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