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No disaster is worse than being discontented.

Laozi

If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.
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Forever Heart Letting Surround
See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.
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Compassion Country Taoism Town
Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose
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Gain Inspirational Lose People Some
Return animosity with virtue.
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Animosity Compassion Return Taoism
Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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Fail Loses Seize Taoism
Meandering leads to perfection.
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Hike Journey Meander Perfection
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 people see some things as good, other things become bad.
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Book Country Life People
Make the small big and the few many.
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Big Few Make Small Taoism
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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Mastery Principles Superior Triumph
The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.
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Everybody Overcome Strong Taoism
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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Artist Good Intuition Need Person
I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.
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Knowledge Mind Understanding
To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.
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Heaven Mean Vision
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
Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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Great Mountain Move River

No disaster is worse than being discontented.

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