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A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.

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Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.
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Contemplate Heart Mind Peace
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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Artist Good Intuition Need Person
What resists, persists.
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Emotions Feel Persist Resist
Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength
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Motivational Strength Wisdom
When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
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Book Country Life People
He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is worn out shall be renewed. He who has little shall succeed. He who has much shall go astray.
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Empty Entire Humility Little Succeed
That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
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Fact Known Overcoming Practice
If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
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Ching Country People Give Life Taoism
The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.
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Lying Mystery Stillness Water
Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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Crouch Happiness Misery
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
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
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Flame Inspirational Long Philosophy
The world’s beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.
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Beginning Children Mother Taoism
Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them… If the sage would guide the people, he must serve with humility. If he would lead them, he must follow behind. In this way when the sage rules, the people will not feel oppressed.
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Below Humility King Lying People
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
If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
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Heart Home Nature Peace

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