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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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Mastery Principles Superior Triumph
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.
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Heart Matter People Trying Vice
The Master doesn’t seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness.
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Able Feeling Taoism Together
He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.
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Dispute Emotion Feelings Love
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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Family Inspirational Motivational
Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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Great Mountain Move River
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 world’s big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.
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Attention Country Done Emotion Humble People
To lead, one must follow.
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Follow Leadership Must People Vlife
Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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Friendship Quarrel Wrong
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
Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.
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REquired Take Taoism Temper World
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
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Self Esteem Spiritual Wisdom
There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
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Earth Finish Heaven Something Taoism
What resists, persists.
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Emotions Feel Persist Resist
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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Inspirational Intelligent Positivity

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