Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.
LAO TZUIf you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.
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The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.
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Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
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The Way to do is to be.
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Just remain in the center; watching. And then forget that you are there.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry.
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Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.
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Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.
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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
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We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.
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Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.
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When there is no desire, all things are at peace.
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One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.
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Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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